Castle Super Beast - SBFC 213: Japan Is A Black Mirror Episode

Episode Date: September 5, 2017

Pat attempts to PUBG, Woolie attempts to Nederlands, Matt attempts to Jason . You can watch us record the podcast live on twitch.tv/superbestfriendsplay Outro: Cerebrawl - Rush The Front (Tac Knight Theme) Nightmare Creatures 2017 Announcement Travis Strikes Again’s gameplay Robin Atkin Downes Will Not Reprise His Role as Travis The Good Life PAX WEST Trailer (2017) Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro’s The Good Life Fig campaign launched Capcom re-releasing Street Fighter 2 on a SNES cart with one hell of a safety warning Kamen Rider: Climax Fighters announced. Atlus possibly teasing Catherine 2 Sonic Forces launches November 7 in North America and Europe Three Shovel Knight Amiibo Unveiled for 'Shovel Knight: King of Cards' Nintendo Switch Games May Require Memory Cards to Experience All Content New Puzzle Fighter announced for smartphones It’s Letter Time The WATCH

Galdust would be too stupid to fall for that. It takes...too late. It takes less work not to blade. The way the double negatives here are throwing me off for a while. It's easier to not blade. Yeah, yeah. When you tell someone don't do that and the act of not doing that thing is less work than if you did it. I kept getting confused and you're like it's like and what you were actually saying is it's so hard not to blade. I need so much effort into this match to not just blade the instant I hit the match.

Woolly, woolly, to make the podcast more dramatic I think you should blade. Should I just start blading right now or should I wait till I'm on the back of the truck in open air so that my blood can spatter on every car we drive past? We were talking about the king of the road match. Oh man. Oh, that's wrestler blood on the car. That's good luck. Yeah, talk about the helicopters. What? Sorry? Talk about the helicopters.

Since Galdust and the person he was fighting bladed and they told him not to what happened. They're in a fucking flatbed truck on the road. They have to film the whole fucking match from like the helicopters point of view, which was only supposed to be used for panning aerial shots. But instead the whole thing is a fucking wrestling match for ants on the road. It's like you're playing Pikmin. But you're saying that it was the one thing they were told not to do in advance was just don't blade. We have a match like back in that day like the mid 90s when you know like hell in the cells are always kind of dangerous.

But like whenever they had some crazy match set up like in WCW or like they had a triple cage, like a weird cage, like everyone's standing on top and everyone's really careful. So like no one does anything. No one does a slam. They just kind of punch and rub each other essentially and they don't take any risks like that. So I assume for the king of the road, they're like, you know, don't throw a guy against the guard. Do not Irish whip anyone. Right, right, right.

That's bad. Right. So they're like the match was already half of your list results in death. Yeah, exactly. Don't don't use the A or down C buttons. Whenever you're a gold dust and gold dust chronicles and you're throwing all the workers off the scaffolding, it's like, yeah, don't do any of the docking. Here's the problem.

If we can't use our Irish whips against the the guardrail, how are we going to make the match dramatic? I know we'll play. Let's juice. Speaking some good carnival. Where that crimson mass. Welcome back. Well, I'm glad that you came back to just talk about carnation with us. Fuck yeah.

What else is there to do? And now he leaves. Yeah, another bionic man. Sound effect. We didn't burn down the podcast. You did not. You did not. Good work.

Good job. I had to do all this weird technical stuff that no one knows. Like I didn't know you had to do. I'm sure no one knows at home. Like update the podcast numbers with the new viewership numbers. Go through like what? It was like eight other podcasts. It used to be every single episode.

And then at some point I was like, OK, look, it doesn't matter after a certain point. Yeah, because it stops. You know, there's lots of back end. There's lots of. So what was by far the most terrifying part of of running that podcast is like was you saying the things you say is right beforehand. I'm going through the little piece of notes that Willie gave me very detailed. And it's like, go to this website and check for the ads like, OK, there's nothing.

All right, there's no ad this week. I think there's some this week, for example. But OK, I can't screw that up because there aren't any. Right? Yeah. As soon as I finished the podcast, Plagues like, did Willie tell you you didn't have to read the ads? I'm like, no. And then a bunch of Twitter people on Twitter are like, hey, you forgot this.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, because everyone's just taking a guess because they don't know whether we have any or not. Oh, they assume that you you didn't because nothing happened. But just like, like, and to make things better, like, later on that same day, it was like, actually, something popped up. But it was it was temporary on hold. Yeah, so it was a pseudo.

Yeah, there was a cat like in the the website, things I have to look at. Casper thing popped up and it happened like at three oh five p.m. or some shit. Well, in any case, in any case, it's a it's an ongoing process. And there's yeah, there's many steps. But good job. I'm glad I'm over at this side of the table again. Yeah, nothing catastrophic occurred. Not that I thought that anything would because at the end of the day, you know,

well, they were very they were very detailed. Step guide, they were detailed to the point where it's like, you should not fuck this up. It's step by step by step. I fucked it up a little bit. How? I don't know. I fucked it up a little bit. But no one would know it's because when I was in putting the new numbers

to the old podcast, yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't know I was supposed to press enter to like enter on individual ones. I changed them all. Then I pressed enter and that only saved one and then I looked back on and I'm like, wait, none of these saved. Oh, I'm like, oh, shit. And then I do it again and pressed enter on server. So what brings me back to the website?

Click on it again. And that's the only time it's saved. Is that how it works? No, you can do it all in one shot, but you got to do it bulk. I did. I clicked on bulk, but whatever. It's fine. This is boring shit. This is super inside. You literally can't get any more inside because not even Pat knows what we're talking about.

Yeah, just me and Matt split up the me and Matt. I assumed you might have. I was like, Matt, all I know is steps one to 30. You had 31 to 60. I was in the sub level cave and you were still in the main cave. Sick. Well, anyway, hey, talking about. So you went to Germany. I went welcome back from England.

I went to the Nether World. Oh, that's way better. I wish the Nether realm, you know. They they they say Neder with a D. Yeah, but, you know, you know, it's interesting, actually. It's not that interesting. I'm I lied, but you just immediately it's like, oh, people are going to say this. Well, no, you know, OK, you know how like the there's the there's the United Kingdom,

there's Britain and then there's England. Yes. And they're all different things. They denote different shutters. Britain and England are different. They're different things. Britain's the island. The United Kingdom is all including Wales and upper Ireland and Scotland, I believe. OK. And then, yeah, exactly.

And then you have there's there's different borders for each name. So it's the exact same thing when it comes to the Netherlands. You do not actually refer to the whole country as Holland. Holland is simply that north and south. It's just it's an area within the Netherlands. OK. Yeah. So yeah. OK. Well, I thought I thought people people use them interchangeably.

I thought I know Netherlands is like kind of a catchall term for most of the I thought it was backwards. I thought the Netherlands. No, that's not at all it. The Netherlands is one place you're proud. And then over the ocean, you've got Scandinavia, which is a whole other collection of countries, but it doesn't count here. This is the Dutch people.

What are they going to do? Bork at me? They don't bork so much. They they a lot. They do a lot of noises. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was a pretty fun time, as you can imagine. It's cool, of course, you know, enjoyed it and made lots of observations. Lots of unexpected things occurred.

I guess I should just go down the list. You have a list. The handy list I've prepared. Observations, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just from from the moment I step off the plane into this land of exceptionally beautiful people, you have never felt yourself confidence, rattle and squeak and shatter within seconds, dude. So, yeah, no, we basically, you know, spent a lot of the time in Amsterdam,

but we definitely went out to other other cities nearby. Rotterdam is a is another city that's Rotterdam and it's interesting because you see like, OK, you get you get into Amsterdam and Amsterdam is kind of like it's surprisingly similar to Montreal. Because you know, everyone says Montreal is a lot of European. It's the most European city in North America, right? And like, you feel it super hard where you go, oh, yeah, I live nearby that kind of cobblestone thing.

And then there's that old series of streets where the buildings are really too close together and like way too close enough room for one horse, you know. The the major difference is that, yeah, it's a place where there's more bicycles than people, right? And George Weidman town. They have enough distinctions on the road so that you get your dress bikes whole time. You get you try to remember who that is. Oh, it's funny, funny.

Hop. Sorry. You get your sidewalk into a bike path into a street car into car like division and then you remember it back on the other side. So you've got like these multiple levels of things. And every time you like step out of a building or step out of a train or whatever and you kind of just step on to the the thing that looks like sidewalk, then you get like eight bikes behind you going.

What the fuck are you doing? You cancer tourist. All right. What is this? Because all of the insults and such that the Dutch people tend to use are body illnesses. Oh, so and things like that. So it's like you can be a cancer tourist. Go get typhoid.

I hope you get a major illness. I hope your bowels fail you and so on and so forth. Wow. Lots of lots of really just like, you know, you're saying every every time you step down on the street, a bunch of people would show up to talk shit at you. Not ride their bicycles up to you to throw insults. If you know, but here's the thing is, is, is they're actually insanely polite people to foreigners and that's what I would think to the degree that it's like.

So I will from from what everyone that I met at Taunton Arcade and we had a good hangout and that was fun. What type of games do they have? Old ones. But like anything unique and seen before like in Euro, Virtua Fighter 2. I fucking I'll play Virtua Striker Fire 2 is like really rare. Yeah, just just old like because that's that's another topic entirely. But sure, sure, like games are kind of dead a little bit in Europe.

It's like something that they consoles, at least in like arcades are not a thing. You hear that Europe? It got increasingly, increasingly hard over the years for them to, you know, keep businesses afloat and apparently a lot of them are shutting down in the same way they're shutting down here. But it also explains how like like traditional arcades or barcades. Well, PC gaming is what people had because people buy PCs for work purposes. And then it turns out, oh, shit, we can play games with these.

Let me ask it. It's a major investment to do just for video games. Seemingly a common second language. It is. Everyone speaks it super well. OK, that's like you're not getting Dutch translations. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Everyone speaks English very well. It's it's it doesn't even have D in it.

Yeah, no, no, absolutely. That's that's not even a question for sure. How do you speak better English than us? And of course, everyone speaks better English than you and me. Well, I mean, obviously they have the accent, but they have the cadence that is European, you know, and they speak in a way that is it's very pleasant to listen to. Anyway, so what I was getting at is, OK, so I guess, yeah.

Surprise number one was holy shit. You expect to go to the Netherlands where the Dutch people live and see a whole lot of perfectly tall, super pretty Dutch people. Yeah. And you do. Yeah. But there's a fuck ton of black and mixed and Asian and all kinds of brown and everything, people as well. It is hyper multicultural. Like they are part of them.

Yes, like I know that you made this a point. Yeah, that's that's the I have never. I love that shit. I have honestly never in my life seen more like mixed, like half black, half white people with the perfect fro lock kind of twists going on, like gorgeous Lenny Kravitz looking motherfuckers. Yeah, you know, all left and right.

Right. And then that Moca Chino, Jessica Alba kind of like look like yeah, like yeah, yeah, yeah, looking people all over the place. It again, your self confidence just oh, there's a way. You know, like Willie walks in and he's that tomato from Veggie Tales. Oh, oh, no. I think like one of the first things I saw, like getting out of that train station, let's say it was like, you know, you have to have a moment that sets the pace, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So for me, it was like established, got out, right, took a little photo and then like just kind of sat down for a second outside the train station. And we saw we saw two like brightly dressed Japanese men on a tandem bicycle, right? Very happy, super excited to be there. Well, they're doing roll by on the bike path and like not but a couple feet behind them was one of those half box car

super European mini car thing. Yeah, just like blitzing down the road, almost two wheels in the air style behind the tandem bike. And I'm like, that is the most European thing I've ever seen. Established, established things that would never happen. I'm in a different place. Oh, for sure, for sure. So, yeah, the other cities that you go out to were a little bit different because a place like Rotterdam, for example, was bombed to shit during the war.

Yes. So they rebuilt it. So none of the old buildings exist. So it's actually a new modern. Oh, yeah, it's a gleaming modern city. It's a gleaming modern city where you get out of the gleaming modern train station. You walk 10 minutes straight ahead and you get to a fucking victory Gundam statue that's just there because that's what we do. We have a Gundam statue here. Approximation. Why would Rotterdam have them?

Yeah. And it's not, of course, it's not your Odaiba style like one to one, but it's a large stone statue of a Gundam. And you're like, yeah, we're doing that next to a Gundam or robot to it's unclear. And it is of a it is styled after a Gundam. Yes. Not too far from that is a giant like literally they called it. They refer to this thing as the buttplug gnome. It is a giant statue of a gnome holding a bell in one hand and a huge buttplug in the other.

And is this this is a Rotterdam? This is this is in Rotterdam. So this is their mascot. And you would I believe it is because when we went then to the to the map and looked at all the different attractions and tourists, it all formed a buttplug gnome was on the thing as listed as buttplugs. Like I'll plug your shit listed officially as buttplug gnome. And we're laying the map.

That's what I'm trying to say. And I have photos and I'm like this thing like we were I thought like I know this is a sexually liberal place. Yeah. But is this what we're doing for real now? Oh, and you know, like just is he like Santa once a year kids? So that's the thing. Someone I ran into explained. Yes, please.

That apparently the original image of this was supposed to be a little mini Santa Claus holding a giant Christmas tree. But it was so poorly made. And so bad. And just shit in its sculpt that it ended up just becoming the buttplug gnome and everyone accepts it and moves on statue of Ronaldo in that fucking airport. Oh, I heard about that. Oh, yeah.

Horrible statues are the best. And we've moved on with our lives. We've accepted it. I have it. Where do you live? Oh, I live two blocks away from the buttplug gnome. When you order food in the Netherlands, like the way it's delivered is you get whatever you're getting. But, holy fuck, you're getting fries with Mayo, whether you like it or not.

Yes. How dare you insinuate that I might not be getting my fries. Mayo on the fries or on the side? OK, that's fine. And I can live because that's presumptuous to the point where after ordering a normal meal, like the waitress came out when came out like almost like she walked in and then like almost ran back out and went, oh, your your fries are coming, your fries are coming.

You know, in a way that was like, please, please, don't be upset. This is a very important question where the fries good. The fries are pretty tasty, but I didn't have too many of them because I tend not to eat fries, especially if you're going to have them with every fucking content meal. Yeah. And and it's going to Cuba. That's all you eat. And it's to the point in that they can make.

That's too American like sensibilities. When you order fries, you order like the word is fries with because the Mayo is implied. Weird. It's almost like when you go down for this. So there's no catch catch up penetration or it's way, way less. There's no zero catch up. Zero catch up involved. You're going to get a bowl of fries out here and a bowl of a male. That's that's weird.

Obviously, fucking Liana would want to go there. She just loves male. You know, that's crazy. You got you got that's nonsense. I mean, it looks like, you know, when you go down for Philly cheese steaks, you've ever been down to Philly for the originals? I not to actually buy them. But I seen plays because they because yeah, like when you when you go down

and like you or you can order one way, one without. And that's the old that's the way you order. Yeah, it's like with onions or without onions type of thing. The mayo is implied in the word. Anyway, you have to do this to prize one of the nights we went out to like this dive that had like a bunch of old old Dutch people hanging out playing jazz. And it was pretty fun.

And like the dude that like was running the bar was just just the most like like you were a Metal Gear boss once upon a time. Is it that retired? Is it naked Rhino? It like his face just looked tired by the war. And just wow. And he was it was great. It's the very charismatic, you know, type of old man, dude.

And this dive was like again, another establishing moment of like people getting way too drunk, dumb kids on vacation, dropping their glass, bristilling the beer everywhere. And like bartender comes out to deal with the situation by just kicking the glass underneath the nearest table, like giving it a once over with one eye and going like me and then walking away. And then everyone continues to dance with a broken glass bucket. We'll clean it later.

Right. Like fucking amazing. He's starting a broken glass. Orange cars are a thing. I've seen one orange car. I'll see. I'll see one orange car like once or twice a year. But that's that you're saying it's a thing. It's a thing. It's a type of color that is on the road.

Because remember when you and I and I think I think we are looking down at a at a parking garage, parking lot thing. And we saw like how many cars there were. And you were really disappointed. You're like, there's white, there's black, there's silver and there's five red. Yeah, those are all the cars. So this must have made you fucking. It was interesting, but I and I wanted to know the reasons why.

And like we had different sensibilities for orange is a beautiful color. Well, orange is on a bunch of flags that are in Europe. And I was like, maybe the fact that it's normalized through that. I don't know. Um, orange is a beautiful outside of like our Canadian flag is a fucking masterwork of graphic design. That's the awesome. Yeah, Amsterdam is pretty fucking up there.

It's not not familiar with that. I'm talking about the city flag, the city flag, because it's on everything. And you can bring the way people use it to like pseudo incorporate it into things and make it work. And you know what it is is great. It is a red bar up top, red bar up on the bottom, a black bar in the middle and three white X's. Yeah, three white X's throws me off.

Yeah. Well, they're they're crosses. Don't drink this place. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, that's the thing is you think it's rich reference to that or to sex or whatever, but it's actually straight up. It's it's their reference to sex to be fair. But anyway, and they tricked us all super slick. Everyone riding all their bikes everywhere all the time.

No, not a helmet to be seen. Yeah, nothing happens. That's unsafe. And that's like and to some degree, the entire like way the country or at least the the cities were run is one that's very different from North America, where there's not a lot of like safety and laws and precautions. It's a whole lot of common sense expected on the average person's part. So the the the actual like canals, I rather like more people

like drive bikes in Europe than like than way over like in America. Of course. Like massively. I don't know if you know this, but every time you see a cyclist out here, you're legally obligated to throw rocks at them. And so the canals are running by and like there's no guardrail to protect you. It's kind of just like don't fall in there and don't fall in there. Don't be a stupid American that falls in there

and don't let your stupid kids fall in there. Yeah, that's that's key. And if they do, just be a good parent, go get a slash and not a dumbass, you know, and never that's kind of the sort of attitude. Take all the guardrails off the roads. Yeah, let's see what else. No canal railings, no fatties, no fatties anywhere. So we can't go.

Oh, man. There's some cool ass shit on every street in the form of like, like, like, like, like a winding walk. No, when it's the time for the street to stop, you can do that for like, like no more traffic or cars or whatever, just pedestrians only. You get these cool little like electric pylons that come out of the ground with the ones that'll absolutely flash in red lights. Those things from Watch Dogs that'll fuck up a car.

Yeah, they come up for real and they can and like every day it's a whole thing. I'm like, oh, my God, the tech looks cool. You ever see videos of people trying to rush those? No, it's a good way to absolutely destroy your car. Do a fucking 180. Oh, like get like, oh, God, it's going to close soon. Yeah, it's going to pop up. So I got to rush it and it always comes up and smashes the carriage

and destroys the car. Can we get a footage of that with sonic spring noises going off? Language is well, besides like when it comes to English, I mean, is treated in this weird way where, OK, cafes are bars. Oh, no, not this time. Coffee shops are weed dispensaries. Well, that's not language. That's just what and everywhere has coffee, but there's nowhere to have a coffee.

OK, I mean, there's not an exclusive coffee place. It's so hard to find the place that everyone has coffee. Everywhere serves coffee, but there's no place to sit and have a coffee. OK, or rather, it's just really rare. Well, no, because why would you sit and have a coffee when instead you're just going to get blazed on the street? Sure. And you specifically and the word coffee shop as one word is how, you know, they've got the big weeds. Yeah.

The biggest. Yeah. The end. They get like how many pounds of big weeds. Did you smuggle back into the country? Zero. As a fact, I had a very three boxes of coffee. I had a very like by by all means boring in comparison to what you'd expect trip because I just I drank a lot of cider and I drank a lot of coffee getting good ciders. Yeah, man. They've got the apple bandit is the apple bandit.

That's a good name. Apple bandit is the shit. I love the bandit. So so what you're saying, well, is you brought back one whole package of coffee, one unit of coffee. Yeah. Yeah. Well, in fact, someone gave me some coffee gum for you. So you've got that. They would come. But yeah. Yeah. No, nary, not a single weed smuggled.

Not even one in bed expected. You got the big old church in the middle. Of course. And right across from the church is the red light. The red light like sex worker doors and then they're facing each other. And that's that's how the culture is in and out. And then right next to all the sex worker doors is the kindergarten. OK. Yeah, they don't tell you about the kindergarten. That's right in between there because, hey, so this, you know,

practical, actually, if you really think about it, pretty practical, honestly. Yeah. The kid, you know, the workers, they got to have somewhere to put their kids absolutely work. And after work, they got to go, you know, got to go to work for sure. Clean that shit up spiritually. So you just walk across the street and be like, bam, bam, boom, done. Thanks. Thanks. Done and done and done. And not to mention, you know, the you want to talk about efficiency.

The church people got to go somewhere on their day off right across. And for efficiency, like the ground of the church is also where the bodies go. It's a graveyard, too. Well, that seems impractical on the long term. Well, I mean, it's what they did. People got buried in churches. OK. But I mean, isn't the big fine? No, but that was staring at that kindergarten was really like

you have one of those moments of like it's almost like the first time you hear about like like safe injection sites, right? Where you're like, this makes sense and is a good idea. Right. Boy, I wish we had one of those. And you're like, yes, it is. And you're like, OK, yes. No, we are. This is correct. Oh, took a minute, though.

I'd rather have one of those around here than catching the hobos underneath the local patio is fucking doing drugs. That's scary. We also went out to Mystery Land, which is a very cool music festival. Had a time. I thought it was going to be a fucking Scooby-Doo themed amusement park. No, I assumed I assumed it would be in the escape room. No, it was a big, big thing where there was a lot of escape rooms

that were two people, so it wouldn't matter. I don't know, man, when you say we're going to Mystery Land, oh, it's music. Yeah, yeah, no, it was a music festival. And Dead Mouse was there. Oh, cool. That was cool. Say hello to Dead Mouse. We did not, but we enjoyed everyone else and everything else.

And there's lots of good music there. You should have gone up to the backstage and made like, listen, I have a YouTube channel that's got 55. OK, if it's 60 ish, 55. This subs. Oh, some of us paid attention. You might have heard of it. It's someone's someone's clicking refresh. It's called Arcadia.

They know. So anyway, no, the one thing I did notice on the way there was the actual places where people live, the suburbs and whatnot of the Netherlands, cleaner than Japan. Wow. If that makes any sense whatsoever. I could see it like pristine beyond pristine, like to the point where it's almost like people don't live here. You know, like they're all just like new buildings.

Just no one lives. Super weird. But yeah, OK, whatever. Creepy. Middle-aged Dutch men dig green dreads, apparently. Lots of lots of compliments. A lot of lots of compliments from. Imagine they don't see it every day. So lots of compliments from dudes that looked like the village

that Dragon Tattoo took place in. Yeah, you know, like people that lived up there. There was a sick ass Batman arcade racer. Yeah, I know. I don't know. You know, I played that at I think when I was in LA last time. It is absolutely the most insane game I've ever played because there's so much too much going on and you don't know what to do. Yeah, yeah, you have 18 objectives at all times

and you're you're racing, but also shooting things is twisted metal. But it's a racer at the same time. Yeah, no, that was that was crazy crazy. And I spent money playing that. Yeah, yeah, you did. Fuck yeah. You did spend money playing that. Did the Heineken tour of their and see how the Heineken was made.

And there's where the child fell in. And and it's never got him out. Yeah, well, you know, after seeing the basics of how the beer is made. And you go, OK, cool. They have all these fancy little like, you know, like, oh, there's a fancy little bar, a fancy little like screen that reads you as you do your gestures. And noticing that like it ran on old Kinect technology where hey, everyone seems to be able to do their Heineken gesture just fine.

Oh, well, we can't do it, though. Oh, why is that anyway? Moving on. OK. You would think that would not be that big of a problem in Dutch land. Hmm. Yeah. And I don't know. Beyond that is referring to the fact that the Microsoft Kinect hates black people. Beyond that, you know, you go to the the super, super duper rich areas of like,

you know, of town where your king dot com is set up. You know, and I.N.G. direct on their lawn. Yeah. Well, and you're just and you're looking you're like the and, you know, the old Rembrandt house and such like these are all really fancy ass places that were originally owned by the people who ran the Dust East Dutch East India Company. Oh, OK. A the ones who started this slave game shit.

Yeah. This is the motherfucking thanks they get. Hey, look, look, there it is. Yeah, it's right there. The beginning of human evil, right? I'm looking at the building where it started. But you guys are going, boy, we got a great idea for you. Let's see if you guys sell you on this great and they pawn off all the blame on the West India Company.

But the East India Company is true. They got. Yeah. How it goes. So there's the dust. The dust. The Dutch West India Company is the ones that were like, oh, man, we're just shipping these slaves in faster than we know what to do with them. There's so many. But the East India Company was like, hey, no, we're just about protecting our exports, man, we're just doing it and, you know, we're doing what we need to do.

But the people that are on the fucking board of directors of both companies are the same people. Oh, man. And anyway, you go through your history and it's all there. And it's all. But but like, yeah. So all those black people and all those and such are coming from the, you know, former colonies that, you know, they used to have Dutch passports back in the day because that was the like, hey, you know what? Sorry about all that.

You can use your passport to come here if you want. That'll that'll that'll fix it. Right. Well, smooth. Either way, pleasant place, really fun time. Good stuff. So you had like a meet up at the bar kid. How'd that go? Yeah, because I'd be like, what are the numbers there? People came out to people hung out.

It was, yeah, you know, like about about 20 people or so, you know, 20 European is still more than a thing. Folks popped up and how many of those people were from the area or just happened to also be in that area? Almost zero were in Amsterdam because they're like, we don't fucking go there. Why would we do that? No, we live outside in the normal cities. And you guys deal with because the city of Amsterdam has less than a million actual like really habitants.

And as four million 17 million tourists. So you're seeing nothing but tourists. Wait, did you did you do not make? Did you just add a made up number? They have on. They used to have they used to have four or three million tourists. Last year, their account went up to 17. That's per year per year.

OK. And they're estimating it's going to keep going on. What is that? Like 20, 30, 40 percent of everyone on the street is not from there. It's it's it's incredible. And the actual population of the Netherlands itself is close to 16 or 17. That's bananas, dude. So, yeah, that many people coming in and out. Very bananas, you know, it's it's it's Amsterdam. It's fucking, you know, International Party City and so on and so forth.

Yeah, I know. I feel like living in Montreal, like a lot of the Amsterdam's unique polls are not that exotic. It's true because all the stuff that it was all that shit's legal. And it's like, well, it's not legal here, but it's like. We can get away with it. It's like no one's no one's going to arrest you ever ever. I can't find it.

But I was given some insults to give you guys. But let you can save those and just use them on a video. I'll find them if you just have a list with you is like whenever your people. All I know, all I remember is your your your ginger people are called fire trucks. Why? Because whatever red is it that? Yeah, yeah. And and then like there's always an emergency and it's and again,

it comes down to wishing, you know, illnesses upon your truck. That's so European wishing illnesses and that's one step to move from curses, basically in your house, man. Yeah, a literal pox. So fire truck. See, that's that. See, that's, you know, there's a problem with that. And the problem is I love fire trucks.

It's too noble. They're great. Fire trucks are heroic and big and red. And when I was a little kid, I was a little, you had a fire. I'm so excited. Can't play with fire trucks. Also had a good time being in being in. You can do it.

God damn it. So many things. I'm cheering you on. Yeah, we're doing being in a city. No, in something else and in in proximity being being in being in an area that was near Ireland when the the fight. Oh, yeah. And people chanting through the streets.

Remember the uprising in children and children of men? Yes. It was a little like that. Really? That was going on. It was pretty intense. Yeah. And I watched Power Rangers on the plane and that was an all right movie.

It was all right. Yeah, probably better than you thought. Yeah, there's there's infinite more. But I mean, let's just call it there when expectations are low. Suplex. Yeah, let's just call it there because there'll be bits that bleed out of me as time goes on and that's an uncomfortable image. Yeah, some Europe will bleed out of you.

Yeah, I'll see if I can slap together some kind of I have there. There's someone suggested a video idea that I thought was not unconventional and pretty fun. So I'm going to I took some footage for some dumb things. Workshop that was it like I got nothing I did. I thought I was going to have something by the end of you saying that. That's OK. There's no joke.

Help. What did you do, Pat? Oh, man, nothing. So no, no, there's there's some stuff. But I'm sorry, I just remembered one. Wait, wait, wait, I just remembered. I just remembered one thing literally actually startled me. I just remember one thing.

OK, you know how windmills are like huge and boring? Yeah, yeah, Congress is SNK. They're super fucking cool. Yeah, OK, why the inside of a windmill is like. Oh, did you not know that? It looks like the inside of a clock tower. It's like a Castlevania state. It's so cool because it is a clock tower.

If the power is just coming from outside going in instead of inside going out. It's super dope, man. Very all the little cogs and gears and throw a guy in there and he gets all chewed up by the stuff. Yeah, no. And I feel like the fucking like Jojo intro is going on while you're walking up those stairs and stuff. Really cool.

Um, yeah, that's what I that's what I a little boy. Willie got really excited by when they were still stupid, though. I don't care what anyone gets. I'll agree with you there. Well, you know, nothing. All right, great. I tried. All right. So I don't know how to talk about this.

And Matt's the only one that's going to even I know. I know exactly what you're going to talk about. What is it? Taco, you're going to talk about Twin Peaks. Yeah, I'm going to talk about Twin Peaks a little bit. So it ended last night. I did. I did not see it, obviously, because I was still like episodes and episodes behind.

And. I don't know if it's good or not. Right. The whole thing or just the ending, just the ending. OK, it was it was fun while it was a fun ride. And there's lots of long threads that just like, what is this going to build up to? And the answer is a lot of them are just going to get dropped at the last second so that Lynch can fuck with you some more.

Sure. I mean, that's what that's expected. This feels similar to the end of season two in that. No, you are left with more questions than answers. And you are left with, are you actually throwing down another cliffhanger again? But it doesn't feel like it's an attempt for a season four. This feels like it was it's supposed to end like this. Really? It makes any sense.

You know, you can see that. I've been pouring over message boards all last night. And this morning just like, can somebody please tell me? Well, no, can Vati make a lore video that explains this shit? My Twin Peaks video and subscribe. I don't know, man. I don't know what you think. I was left feeling like tired.

And it's like, Lynch, could you just tell? No, no, no, no, shut up like one time. Shut up. So to Woolie's point of view, because he's actually seen it, people are comparing the way this veers off into unknowables as the closest thing he's ever made to Mulholland Drive. Oh, my God. And I haven't seen Mulholland Drive.

Oh, my God. Are you serious, old school Lynch? That is unknowable. There's there's there's a meta narrative. You can't hear it. First, the Twin Peaks, the old Twin Peaks series is the least David Lynch thing David Lynch has ever done, which is why it's the most traditional thing. Because it was created with another guy.

There's a moment in which David Lynch's character is accused of going soft in the final episode, which he responds not where it counts. And then he throws down this gauntlet at you. I thought you meant actually throws down like a metal gauntlet. If if you are planning to get into that season three and watch it to the end, it is vital that you watch Firewalk with me. It is one hundred percent vital. I've never been able to actually do it.

Yeah, well, I'm going to do it now. I always fall asleep during Firewalk with me. Is he do you find that some of his direction choice is director Oriole or Oriole or Oriole toward choices? Yes. Are like self-paradying in a way or like he's American. Oh, I know. And I rather sorry. American.

And oh, OK. You know, all the things that annoyed you in three point three three audience like the playing around with audience frustration, expectation and catharsis. That's this. OK. Twin Peaks season three might as well be like the rebuild of Evangeline for three three. No, like the whole read the whole thing. OK. Like it is very, very similar.

OK. And you you can just transplant all of your feelings about that willy on to this and kind of understand where I'm coming from. This is not made. This is not made for revolutions or fucking prequel trilogy. That's for sure. But like this it this is clearly what Lynch Frost and maybe Kyle McLaughlin wanted.

This is not what I wanted. Sure. Probably not what I want. Was that up until the final episode? What you said? Well, because the whole thing is like and I even I cursed it by talking about it on last podcast of like. It where I'm like, it's finally going somewhere.

Yeah, you said that last right. It's all so it's all worth it because it's going to go somewhere. So up up until conclusion, you actually were on board. Yeah, the yes. Well, the bigger problem is that there are there's a lot. So a lot of plot threads get left by the wayside. And it's either I guess to be picked up in the future or just to leave you wondering or whatever.

But the the plot threads that got left by the wayside are all the ones that I care about more than the main story. Like I like because I became so attached to characters in the original series and what I little saw of them in the third one when they would show up. It's like I care way more about this than about all the the the goofy spiritual evil nonsense going on in the main plot. So when those stories end up with no resolution,

a few of them don't anyway, it's just like it's absolutely killer. One thing I can say is that like from up until the last episode I saw, it seemed all the storylines up until that point, at least were very, very separated. Yes. And whereas the first two up to yeah, the first two seasons of Twin Peaks felt like it was all happening in this small town because it was so New York, Las Vegas, Twin Peaks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like it didn't feel like a cohesive story up until that point I saw.

So you're basically saying is that even up until the last episode, it's still not because they just drop plot lines. They just drop a bunch of them. They introduce one near the end, which is by far the most compelling thing about the whole show. And then they drop it without any mention ever again. And it's like, no, I care more about the answer to that question than every single thing that's happened in these last two episodes.

I saw some people that would drive me absolutely crazy. I like follow or whatever. There's like Dan, the artist Dan, and then there's like Jay from Red Letter that's like, this is the greatest. It's ever been like, oh, so amazing. And I'm like, I haven't seen it. But like, oh, yeah, it's a film students wet tree. OK, OK, sure.

It like you go, I've been I've been trolling around on every form that you can find looking for people talking about it. And it's like, oh, you guys are idiots. Episode eight was the masterpiece of television cinema. It's like episode eight was really boring and overdone and took forever. And like, oh, that scene with the headlights, that was so terrifying. And all that ever presence of dread. And it's like, oh, there's like, there's a scene in which characters

are driving somewhere on highway and there is a pair of headlights behind them. Lost highway that lasts for maybe five minutes and they keep checking to see. And the headlights are that weird, perfect distance behind them the whole time. You're like, what a terrifying. Oh, it's like dream logic. And it's like that I'm bored. I'm fucking bored. Shut up.

That's very David Lynch. I was not very Twin Peaks, what you're describing these sequences. Or very good. It sounds like the problem. The good is the thing is that no, Lynch, like that's the thing is like if you're being true, like true to what he is in his other work, as well, far as I know, because I don't know Twin Peaks, but I've seen some Lynch shit. Yeah, you know, and like that all sounds way more in line

with what he did outside of the series. Every episode that this is so everywhere in the season three, I really felt like those moments had a point because they were explicitly like pushing you away from the thing that use the viewer wanted to something else, right? Or they were denying you or delaying you or whatever. But this, this particular trip down the highway happens when you are checking your watch to see how many minutes are left in the episode because you're like, there isn't enough time.

Like, like there, there are long, long stretches of nothing longer than even some of the longest in the series up until that point. I know, I know. Right at the point where you're like, no, this needs to hurry it up. Because if you don't hurry it up, there literally is no time for anything. There's only so many episodes. Because you're like, you have 11 minutes left in this series. There was 11 minutes left of Twin Peaks for all time.

Yeah, yeah. For you to answer the following 89 questions. You have decided to answer zero and add a hundred more. Huh. Like, damn it. And you're saying it doesn't feel like they want to set up a fourth season. There's, but there's obviously a possibility. But this feels like a, like this feels more like a concrete ending that is big

rather than a cliffhanger ending that's begging for another season. Man, I had it really interesting. Actually, I think I brought it up to the podcast. The discussion I had after watching Black Mirror about bread crumb based like television and writing versus whole, complete, thorough writing. And like, again, it's not that it won't entertain me every time, but I just the more and more I it's something it's more impressive to write a complete story that ends because it's so easy to just write questions

into into a thing or start off threads that you don't have to finish. It's such an easy thing to do in writing because it pulls intrigue out of the viewer with no other effort required because they just want to know what they just saw for with no other effort other than just wait until next in for seven days. And if the person has 25 years, yeah. And like a lot of people, if they if they enjoy the gist of what's happening, we'll be patient enough to be like, oh, I'll get an explanation eventually.

And so you're just strung along to that thing. I didn't even want an explanation. I just wanted like it's a little vague. But Matt, I'll get a better excuse. What I'm saying is like I didn't want explanations. I just wanted a few answers, right? I didn't need the answer to make sense even. But and so like after I finished that, I caught up on a bunch of episodes

of Hero Academia and I'm like, oh, yeah, they're doing their final exams. Now I can. A thing is happening and then the thing will happen after it that makes sense because of the and I felt all relieved and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know those episodes of Ippo after the match? Yeah, when like you have a vague idea of 12 weeks of chilling out. Yeah, you have a you have a vague idea of like who the next opponent's going to be.

But not really. They just kind of introduce someone someone to hold up a poster. Yeah, or someone will visit the gym, right? And then show and then talk to Takamura. But then for the most part, you're just it's like Ippo's on his downtime. He finished his match. It's done. You know, go hang out with Kumi and not make out. And that's fine.

I enjoyed those episodes. Yeah, dude, yeah. There's nothing wrong with taking with ending a thing and taking your time. And oh, man. Anyway, so aside from that, I also played the XCOM to expansion a whole bunch of play like 20 hours. Yeah, I heard you tried to to that was a nightmare. Don't even talk about that.

Tried to get a redo. No, no. So this this. So everybody knows what XCOM is and XCOM, too. But I know what Mario rabbit. Yeah, that. So the fact that those games came out on the same day. Did I get a jet pack is the most confusing shit ever.

It's not really. I didn't get a jet pack in pieces. Did the dark events win? No, yeah, if you're a piece of crap, what happened, Pat? So where the chosen is as an expansion is fantastic. It's improved a lot. I have never seen a video game expansion so blatantly steel mechanics from other games.

Really? Just and they all work really well. But they it's just it like they are taking the things. But they are just taking the mechanic and like making it their own. They're taking the mechanic as well as the visuals of the mechanic, as well as the mentality of the mechanic. So XCOM, too, or the chosen takes fire emblem style camaraderie bonuses between really between players. They don't get married and have kids,

but they do get bonuses very, very similarly. And it's built in the same way. They take the I swear to God, the nemesis system. I was about you were telling me about like it takes the nemesis. Like what? It takes the nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor and creates the chosen, which are if you look them up, you look up the chosen. They are fucking orcs that are purple because they're aliens,

but they are goddamn Mordor orcs and they will track you and they have randomized bonuses and weaknesses that appear on the screen identical to Shadow of Mordor when they show up. And when you kill them, they go, I'll get you next time. And they'll come back with a stronger bonus and maybe another weakness until you finally like that whole thread is just completely identical. It's so nuts.

They take zombies and they like and throw them in just like left or dead, like all these little pieces that they took from all these little places and they actually work together really well. But it's just it's overwhelming when you go and play against the chosen. It's like that is a goddamn Mordor orc. They even look like them. They look just like them. They're just tinged a little purple.

Now, were you playing this in preparation for your rabbit adventure? No, I don't care about the rabbits. Because I have a friend who played that and he told me some fucking stupid shit with those because the one thing to get into XCOM again for is in preparation for rabbits. You know, you have to have a rabbit on your team. Of course you do. Of course you do.

No, but you know, even though you get it, even though you get enough Mario characters to set. No, you can't just pretend this is Mario RPG only. You can't do that. This is Ubisoft rabbit adventure. Every single person got out of here. I've seen red or watched talk about this game. They are all nearly unanimous of like, oh, it's a really good game.

And the rabbit thing isn't as bad as I thought it was. But it's I don't like rabbits like every single person. Hey, man, like the game is like that. Poisoned by for everyone. It was poisoned by I don't think rabbits are that bad. If minions hadn't been introduced, rabbits would be fine. But minions poison the well, honestly, the poison the well. Hmm, I mean, I guess I'm also looking at Morgana, right?

As far as just like little mascot characters. There's one more. No, there's a difference between Morgana and Teddy. And you're like, wow, persona does it right. And rabbits. And the deal is, is that rabbits are visually hideous. And I don't mean that they're poorly designed. Oh, they're they're gross.

I mean, they are they're aiming for garbage, pale kids. Yeah, they're weird bearded. They're gross. They're supposed to be ugly. So it would have been better if they were cute rabbits. Yes. If they were cute rabbits, I would love them. Oh, you know that. If they were cute rabbits, they wouldn't have been nearly as successful. But they did that. So generic.

And they wouldn't have lasted. I would pet a bunny right now. Look, clearly Ubisoft wanted to go for the what is it? The bad Vanna style character. You know, the bananas that are like ripping open their their their their skin and so that it's like, oh, it's like it's my big dick. Oh, what they are. But this time I'm a Spider-Man.

What they are is what they are is gremlins for children. Yeah, essentially, yeah. Don't know. I'm not going to. I don't like that shit. I don't want to play it. I have a real XCOM game. I don't need to play the weird fake play the one that has better reviews. Mario X.

That's all the money right now. It's all the like that's a matter of expectations. Sure. Sure. And one's an expansion pack and one's a brand new game. So the brand new game obviously should get and plus you go like, well, there's no rate, though, no, there's no way this would be good. Oh, fuck, you know, I also had. I had one of those overwhelming moments where, you know,

you read something in video game news and you realize that you don't understand it. So you have to actually go and understand it. This is how here's the storm happened for Pat. So you see that player on on battlegrounds is now the number one game on Twitch. How did I how did I know you were going to talk about unknown battlegrounds? Player unknown. Like, I had a feeling that was about to come up because I'm like,

this is the one thing that I think we've addressed once or twice. So it's like, if someone said to us, background is that when we were having shooters or survival games, whatever that, you know, that whole genre happened in the background while we continue trucking on. It was on the podcast. And now it's like, what do you mean? You don't know what now it's the biggest thing ever. And it's like, great, that's a genre.

None of us played or looked at. I do play it. If this happens, this happened like a year ago when we were really going hard on on Arena of Fate and battle guys and all those fucking stupid names. If someone had said, you know what, player unknowns, battlegrounds will blow the fuck up. We'd be like, ha, ha, whatever.

That name is stupid. Who cares? No, but if it's such a bad, no, but if you know, but if you said the guy who made Daisy's next thing is going to be the biggest thing, then I'd then I'd be like, yes, of course. Sure. So but just by the name alone, I played a couple of hours of it. Nothing, nothing crazy, not like XCOM. And I do have some completely outside.

Yeah. So wait, let me finish. I saw that it became the most popular game on Twitch. It beat League of Legends, which had a three year streak on Twitch of the most popular game. And I went, OK, this is clearly not going to go away. Like this is. Yeah. This is this is how I felt when Counter Strike got big and I was playing Day of Defeat.

And then your fear of aging kicked in. So you decided to go find out what all the kids were playing. Oh, did you see that? No, I didn't. OK, because that was the tweet. I put out a tweet going, all the kids seem to like player unknown. Am I old? Yeah. So how is the pub good pub? So I was calling it Pugby's or Pugby's.

Oh, no, Puggy's, Puggy's, Puggy's. So it's clearly still early access. That being said, it's pretty polished for an early access game. Course it is. But everybody knows all this stuff. So. First thing that happens is that you parachute out of your plane. And I noticed that a problem that happened,

which was the end of my first four matches, is that everyone else knew how to parachute out of the plane better than me. And hit the ground 15 seconds before I did, which means by the time I landed, someone was literally standing there with a gun and just popped me to that game control, which was like astonishing, astonishingly brutal start to something like that.

You died before the game started. Basically. Yeah. Now, luckily, the game is hyper popular and the way that it's matchmaking is made is that like you just leave the lobby as soon as you get killed and everybody else has their own game. So you just pop into another match like right away. Right. So you're not forced to sit. No, hell no. God. OK.

And just, you know, OK, so I had to go up and go to YouTube's and internet stuff and like, how do I get out of the plane? Gooder. So the answer points right down. Well, before you get into more detail, I guess, my understanding of what this game is to begin with is that you are doing a smaller version of Daisy, where you're first person on an island and as you die, it's a permadeath game.

And there's a limited number of weapons, bullets, resources, vehicles. And as you play, the area gets smaller and smaller. Yes. Until there's one survivor. Until, yeah, until there's one survivor. There's a bunch of games that it goes from an eight by eight kilometer map to an area that would be like smaller than most call of duty maps. At the end. And the death wall is faster than your character.

Is it a is it a wall of death or is it a pit? It is a wall of death. It's a force field that comes in from the side and it like poisons you basically whenever you're standing in it. You can you can live in it for a couple seconds so you can barely make it through. But OK, look it up. OK, you have to aim straight down. OK, try them. Try it a couple of times. OK, I made it to a house, picked up a gun.

Look, there's a guy. Oh, everyone's better at shooting in this game than me. Also, well, that'll be forever. Yeah, this one felt particularly poignant, brutal. And eventually played, I don't know, a while. I ran over some people with some cars. That is by far my most effective weapon is that when you are driving and somebody decides to try and kill you, they have to shoot at you. And if they miss or hit you and don't kill you,

that car is going to run them the fuck over and they're going to die. It is actually an astonishing amount of fun. Like when you last when you when you if you're able to push you that initial burst like that first five minutes of like grabbing things and people are near you and, you know, that initial shit fight. The slow ass trek to the center of the map. Worried about ever like, you know, you're worried about sight lines in a way that you almost never are in games

because there could be a guy like literally on that hill over there just waiting or some guy in that house. You learn to get freaked out by open doors. Is there a chat? Yes. And you turn that shit off. OK. You turn that shit off as fast as you possibly can. And is it true that it's like like an average game can last 25 minutes or so? Average, I wouldn't say so. If you're good, if you're really good, an average game can last 25.

It looks like the end of the game can last 30 to 40. Like if you get all the way to like the top 10. Yeah. One of the really nice things I think I don't think Vinny mentioned it, but in the upper right corner of the screen, it tells you like the how many people are left alive on the map currently. So you will run into a situation where you're walking towards a tiny little town and you hear some massive gun battle erupt and then you look above and you go and you see the number go down

from 57 to 42 and you go, I'm going to go around. How effective is cowardice? It's yeah, I want to know that. The I only played one game where I got anywhere and I got to 22, which is pretty high out of 100. And the reason I got that high is because I did not see a single person the entire trip to the center of the map because I hid in houses.

I hid and crawled and fucking cowarded the fuck out. That's the way. And then crossing a tiny little bridge over a flooded area. I just got shot, I guess. And so right now, I could not possibly recommend this game to anybody because there is an update that is supposedly coming that shows a kill cam because right now there is absolutely no kill cam. So you just dropped dead.

So you just dropped dead and the camera went straight down at your character. So you don't understand how you died. I have never understood how I died. Almost every single game I have ever played in this game, I've never seen another player, but that doesn't mean I didn't get fucking shot and killed. It just means that I'm looking ahead or I'm looking around. And then I hear pop, pop, and my vision goes right. Then my character just falls over and just that's it.

It is the most frustrating thing ever. And now people who pushed past that have gotten really good. And when I was talking about how I was getting blown up on Twitter, I got what may be the most infuriating response I've seen in modern video games. Get good. No, it's a variant of get good that is extra infuriating. Oh, what is it? This is what you get for coming into the game so late in its life cycle.

But that's that's not fun. That's to which my reply is two full long of a sentence. Game hasn't come out. Yeah, yeah, it's an early access to which to which the reply is is welcome to the world of early access. So this feels like a problem because now I imagine Street Fighter Five came out early access for like I mean, so the obvious we obviously travel from there to fighting games, but really, it doesn't have to be fighting

games, anything remotely competitive at all. And it's like anybody who's willing to put up with the suit, like extreme lack of polish on a lot of these things is going to get an enormous skill advantage and it's super frustrating. It's like, really, I'm supposed to scourge the internet for all these early access games to get on board the one that's hot. You know, it's frustrating. And it's weird because it's like, yeah, yeah, the game's not out yet.

It's an early access. Yeah, but 800,000 people are playing it concurrently. Nine hundred now. So that doesn't even mean anything versus like, let's say, lawbreakers, 300. Now, I'll say one thing about this. This in early access is a better shooter and better multiplayer game than I've played in shooters for quite some time. That's like that's still the core gimmick.

Starling is so compelling and unique that battle royale. Everyone's willing to forgive. The most battle royale games were fucked up piles of shit. Yeah, there's a game that's on Xbox preview, but it's been on Steam for a while called the Culling, which is literally Battle Royale. You're dropped in a tropical island and you fight until. And then there's one of those Amazon games. Remember on Amazon like a year ago or like?

God, what's the one we played? A breakaway. Then there was like a scary one. And then there was another one that was like, fight until there's only one person left. That thing's still not even out. That's you can't play there yet. It's going to be so late to the game reading the manga in like the early odds and like me and my friends were talking about or like the condemned.

How is there no giant battle royale video game that is a million seller, you know, like huge number of things? Big million. Yeah, it took a decade and a half for it to happen. Like a thing I saw sales data says P bugs or P Pugby's is the most successful game on a single platform like period this year. And sure. And like, like, I guess if anything, it's like it's almost just like a shame

that like it's not officially battle royale with the collars and everything. Because you can have the zones. You can have the same movie rule set or book or manga rule set applied to a video game with the level of weapons and stuff. The manga rule set of like everyone like gets dropped into an area, keep fighting until there's one person left, map get like, I would love to play that, but not in a first person shooter with standard guns and weapons. I want to play anarchy reigns like that.

Yeah, you know, you want to play for sure. What was the suit of game that you claim the tower? Let it die. Let it die. You want to let it die. I love to play let it die like that. Anything really. So one of the the weirder flaws that I discovered in the game to the point where I felt like I had to look it up and I did find some information about it

is that the beginning of the match feels physically shittier than later parts of the match. Weird. So like opening doors, sometimes it just doesn't happen, which is bad. Picking up weapons can be finicky. Like bullet detection can be somewhat finicky in the early parts of the match. OK. And I was like, what the fuck is that about? So I went and went on various forums and looked up. It's like, so this runs on Unreal Engine 4.

And apparently Unreal Engine 4 doesn't perform well latency wise with 65 or more players because it was built with an upper limit of 64. Because why would you ever need more than that in a game? Now, this game has a hundred. Yep. So I'm thinking it's like whenever it dropped down below 64, it actually would just all of a sudden latency would just improve.

Apparently, player unknown is talking to like the G like the boon. What's the brother boon? Mike and people at Unreal and be like, hey, I need to modify this, so it goes up to a hundred people or whatever. But like that's a fairly large flaw for a game like that to have. I would personally prefer if the map like you just kicked it down to 64 to start and was a little more aggressive about the size of the map. But large flaw, but also like minor compared to the like the things

that would go wrong, usually with having a hundred people connected to one fucking game. You know, that that is a testing nightmare that if it's functional at all, I'm kind of impressed. There's there's a lot of current issues in the game that will be solved with features because they're not bugs, but they cause a bunch of stupid shit to happen because it's early access. So one of the things I read in future updates, they're going to add vaulting, which is, you know, you run towards it and you you vault over it

like a battlefield or a mirror's edge or whatever. The reason why that's a problem is because there's a shitload of stuff that looks like you can jump over, but it's like one or two pixels too high and you super can't jump over it at all. So you're dead. Because you're like you'll go and you know, those those those European houses that have like little fence and little stone fences all the way around, except for the entrance, like you go in there and you're like, Oh, no, I need to run away.

It's like, I'm actually trapped. I have to leave by the fucking entrance. And they got to go with standardized objects because like crates and NFPS is mean that that box is the site of your player. You can hide behind it. Well, they are. Those those little fences are in fact standardized, but like the vaulting system. So it's just constant little frustrations of like, oh, damn it.

So it's like when this is a fully released game, big air quotes, hopefully all those will be in. But as of right now, it's like lots of fun, great idea, but constant, constant small frustrations that like I kept playing it. But every time I played it, I was like more frustrated than the time I played it last. Like I came off that just like so upset. What's the what's the weapon variety like?

Is it really just like a handful of gun types? Or is it about 15 ish different types of modern firearms? There are mainly what's the what's the what's the most out there type of cross that you can get? OK, because it's silent. That sucks. OK. But that's the most out there weapon and then just melee stuff. Yeah, but I never saw it.

That's changed. I never saw. Well, I mean, I saw crowbars on the floor, but why would you pick up a crowbar in a game? And why would you pick up a crowbar? Well, that should drop you in like two shots with your with a pistol. Oh, well, whatever. No, no, Matt. Matt, we are wrong for expecting other for expecting more choice.

They're 64. We are we are wrong. You guys sound like you want to play a multiplayer game. You can go slappers only or melee weapons. Yeah, we we expect some dumb Japanese bullshit, and it's not going to happen. You know what you guys should play? You should play Mountain Blade, if that's what you want. Mount and the blade. Yeah, it's basically what you're describing,

but you have to deal with the fact that it plays like Mountain Blade. Sure. And I know there's a lot of Mountain Blade fans out there. But every time I pick it up, I'm like, this controls like absolute trash. It feels bad. What do you mean? There's no chain in sickle. Sorry, Gama. Yeah, sorry, Gama. We're like, sorry, get out of here. Kusari, Gama.

There you go. So you recommend pub. Geez, pub. It's a little expensive for an early access. How much is it? It's like 40 bucks. That's a little expensive. That's more than anything I've ever heard of early access. Now, people are going to say that it's only 30.

It's like, yeah, but Canada, guys, come on. None of that $60 multiplayer only bullshit. Oh, God, my brain's in Euro mode. I check. I check lawbreakers numbers every day. What's the lawbreak? What's the what's the what's the metrics right now? Last I checked was yesterday was at 302. 302.

We that should be a regular podcast feature. Cliffy B talked about fucking lawbreakers every single day on his Twitter up until the day the game came out. And then he is. Hey, hey, shut his fucking mouth. Listen, it's not this ain't some multiplayer, only $60 bullshit. No, it's it's no player, $30 bullshit. Very good.

Speaking of speaking of player, players and multiplayer stuff. I played a well, no, I played Fridays, the 13th. OK, I streamed some of it. But up until then, I was I was playing it and I have a little criticism to make about it now that I stopped playing it for a bit. Because I was like, you know, I'll wait for the new multiplayer map, the new Jason, the the spring break 1984 Bikini pack where Chad Chatterson, Chad Kensington, rather, is like the the smarmy asshole.

And he's wearing this tight little man thong thing. And in the trailer for these these costumes, the other male characters look at him all furious, because all the girls are like, ooh, la, la. I assume some of that. And a little problem I saw is if you step away from that game for a little bit, you can't be Jason whenever you want, unless you start your own private match and a bunch of have eight people that will join, you don't choose when to be Jason, right?

Same problem, snake versus guards at. So when I got to be Jason again down for this, this, yeah, yeah, OK. But I know totally fine with being a camp counselor. So when I finally got to be Jason, I was like, shit, I'm not. I'm playing like garbage or whatever practice offline. That's what I was going to say. It should absolutely have a practice. Now, there's a story mode coming where it's against bots.

But I'd imagine it's still your the counselors, whatever. It absolutely needs them because there's a how to play section that's done via pitchers, not good enough. Even if it tells you like, you know, use traps or whatever. Like, OK, yeah, hold down to place a trap. Oh, wait, I can't place a trap against the window. Has to be a little like that takes a little bit of a climatizing. It's been like at least a month since I last played as Jason.

But I've been playing as counselors all the time because that's easy. So when I played it and I played in the new smaller maps, these maps are 40 percent smaller to facilitate way more fighting. Yeah. Right. 40 percent, that's huge. They they they rejiggered the levels and they still feel like good levels, like well designed. But there was just to paraphrase from 76,

this is the most target rich environment. And I was actually like, oh, who do I? It was so bad because Jason has a sense mode where he just everyone's highlighted in red based on their fear level. The more fear that they exhibit, the brighter that they shine or whatever. And I like I was playing this and I just see five people screen about. And I'm like, oh, I can't fucking can't get any time like this. Absolutely need some type of offline practice mode, just as you'd be like,

right, this is how I do this, this is how I do that. That's that's where that is. And get used to the maps a bit more. Because otherwise, did I go into a public game? People don't take these small maps. They just go to random because no one gives a fuck. So when I actually get thrown in these small maps, I don't know where anything is.

Did you get stuck being it as a kid a lot? Because I did. And it's sorry. You mean, you mean did you get tagged to be it? Yeah, it doesn't it. Doesn't it suck what a bunch of wigs. It was super boring. So guess what? I blame and then the stupid nimble fucking

Cambodian kids would run over and do flips over the fucking monkey bars. Playing with a bull shit. I was playing with a mic. And when you're Jason, you're in your close proximity people, you can hear anybody talk to you and everyone's making fun of me. Everyone's saying, yo, let's kill this guy. Look at this, Jason. This is a bad Jason. Look at him.

I'm like, oh, oh, like again, vegetals, tomato, I'm just looking down. See, this is you talking about this makes me hope that they actually kick left or dead three out the door because like that was the perfect thing about left or dead formula is that you play as the bad guys, but you're not an invincible one turn fight. It's like you're playing as multiple things, a multiple things, but you're also playing as them like like randomly.

But like, OK, I'm going to be a smoker. Oh, I got him. Oh, I fucked up. I'm dead. I'll wait 90 seconds and get another shot for my big thing. But whereas in this, you do have a long time, but still like another small thing is that was also four and four. Yeah, that's true. Like when you went into versus and this is seven on one. Yeah, you would you would in left or dead,

you play versus you do the four people versus the four monsters, but you would go in and you do one part of a map, then you'd switch. Yeah. So like you if you wanted to, you could play as that shit all the time, right? And here it sounds like no, it's luck of the draw or whoever made the server or. Now, how does how does God, that fucking monster hunting game, not awesome, monster hunting, but continue the game with the monster words, if all how do they handle it?

I don't remember games. No, I know, but how did they? How did they handle it? Yeah, was it a five people go into a match and if and it is randomly drawn as to who will be the monster? Yeah, I mean, that's in a public game of Friday the 13th, it's random. And when you even make a private game, you can set it to be random. But otherwise, if you don't, you can pick whoever you want to be Jason,

the host of the game. So a host will go, who wants to be Jason? Right. OK. So a really good moment is when I was streaming this last night, I saw someone in the chat that says, oh, I can join up in like in the chat in the stream, right? And then I was like, OK, cool. And I see that guy pop up in the game.

I'm like, oh, I'm playing. Oh, make him Jason, because who doesn't want to be Jason? So the match up, he goes, oh, what have you done? I don't want to be. I never. What do I do? So I was like, whoa, this guy's really doesn't want to be Jason. And good job, man. We flip. I didn't know.

And we flip around and he's just like looking at a fireplace for the entire match. And everyone else is running around him. There's three people and he's just like, I don't know what to do. Because there's so much pressure. There is. Yeah, everyone's paying attention. You are the game. You're the star. You are the game. You're the DM now. You're the game is you.

So it was fine. It was the most long draw. It it it what it finished by time over, which is a full 20 minutes. It was pretty fun to watch. But he was like, never made me I'll quit this game. If someone ever makes me Jason, I was like, you should have said don't make me Jason. Anyway, I still had fun. I'm going to play with all that with all that new content is still coming out. I'll have to say the last time I talked about this,

the I said the Xbox one version was just I wouldn't say unplayable. But like, I'd recommend not playing it because I had this memory leak issue. That seems to be completely fixed now. Thumbs up guy didn't have one memory leak at the end of match. Got all my XP. So that's good. The thing I want to talk about next and something that's irked me for a while, I've always remained silent on it. This might be something that Willie might know.

But something I absolutely can't stand. Let's complain about this a bit on Twitter. Is that like by day, one day will change to the next. I can't stand how Netflix will be like. How about a new thumbnail for this show that just started? I caught the preview of this from your wife. Yeah, I can't stand that Netflix usually with its own shows. But we'll do it with almost everything.

Next generation has changed from Picard to Warf to just the next generation logo with no rhyme or reason. And I like fucking hate it. I like that the splash page, a.k.a. the landing page, yeah, changes to be whatever episode you're on. That's fine. That's so that you remember right away, besides just the number saying resume from here. But the thumbnail changing.

I don't know if that's what is it? Is it just what is it? I think it's new shit, new shit. No, oh, I thought it was new shit. So I told you guys like two weeks ago, I was watching Ozarks with Jason Baiman. They have changed that thumbnail. I counted. I looked at it five times now. If it's in your list, it's in your list though, right?

The goal. Why? Like if it's under the continue watching section, it should be the like. There's a fine. Experimenting to see what kind of thumbnail has changed three times. Right now, it's really good. It's just this like painterly like image of Ryuk. It's all black and white. But before it wasn't like I'm just why?

Why does it have to happen all the time? Because someone told me it's a marketing thing. They think if they change the thumbnail, you will go new shit. New shit. Yeah. But your brain gets new when it's in your recently added. Your brain is just scrolling right past it every time, like when you go to the goddamn YouTube thumbnail, like criteria guides, like make a funny face and the thing that's actually in the guidebook.

Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, you never went and looked. I didn't see that. That comes from a fucking official there is an official YouTube page. You can go and see pro tips for making a thumbnail for your video. And one of them is make a big expressive face. There's one that I caught on to that. I mean, it's not caught on to everyone's been doing this, but I didn't realize it was a thing, an arrow for some reason,

an arrow pointing at something in your thumbnail is a thing now. And it's like it's like a it's like a road sign. You know, your eyes are just drawn. No, no, it's like secret things you didn't notice in whatever the fuck. And that's a point. You know, like the nearest his face or something. Yeah. And there might be a circle around her face.

And it's just look. Did you notice? I did. So the other thing that that that same day, I step outside my house and I look down at the pavement and I just start fucking crying because there's shitloads of broken glass all over my fucking sidewalk right in front of my door. And I just start going, why?

What is this happening? I hate that shit. Sure. I don't care what it was. I don't care if it was a break in. I don't care if it was a drunken person throwing on their bottle. That is the fucking worst behavior I've ever seen by mankind in a low level format. I will put dangerous shit right where you're going to fucking walk. Like, I hate that so much.

Don't I have shoes on, but like depending on glass, I don't want to walk on glass. Don't go to Amsterdam. What are you saying? I'm saying that regularly in the morning, when you're going for your stroopwafel, there's going to be some barf and glass around both because people glass barf B and G hard. Yeah, all the time. What do you think is the sounds the night before are the map being generated?

So there's all this broken glass and I'm furious and I go, I fucking hate that shit. Is there more broken glass than would appear to have come from one bottle? It no, someone said I've seen that type of glass. That's a someone's window, like car window, getting fucking busted. OK, OK, and I'm just like so furious. I see it and then fucking Volta base makes a picture of a bunch of Netflix thumbnails being broken glass. Yeah, and I got super angry at that change.

That's the thing. I was like, they're all the same picture of broken glass. But if you hit Photoshop, different broken glass, I would have been really angry. So aside from that is real shit. Aside from that, I did finish Ozarks. Will you highly for you, especially I highly recommend it because ten episodes in the last episode, OK, very, very good. Did they have an ending?

It had a it had a an ending, which if it ended there, yeah, but it got renewed for a second season. So, yeah, I can see it going on for a second season. That sounds nice. Yeah. It's nice when things have it does. It is nice. It does nice when have ending. Yeah. And the last thing I got through a bit more of

lucha underground season two. I'm now I'm now starting sexy star, sexy star. She's the biggest face. Like, it's really annoying. I got to I'm just about to start Ultima lucha dose. Really? I have I have this criticism now that I've been watching for a while because since I follow lucha underground on Twitter,

they will regularly it's so weird because it's like a TV show. So they spoil it constantly on the Twitter. You shouldn't do it, right? And I can I can dance around this. But Joey Ryan is in season three. And you know who Joey Ryan is. He's a dirtbag with the from the 70s. That's his gimmick.

That's the interesting thing about that is gimmick in the show. But that's not actually who it is. That's his gimmick for when he goes to lucha underground. But he has a secret identity in real life and where I am in season two. Well, in the real life of the show, real life of the show, he has an actual other job. Yes, OK, OK, OK. But I know when I see him in season three, I'm like,

how has Joey Ryan not getting gone caught yet? Why is Joey Ryan alive? Because people got shot for less than what Joey Ryan's doing. Exactly. People got fucking killed. So when I'm watching season two, and I know this guy like survives to season three, I'm like, what the fuck is this story? It's reverse game of thrones.

So there's stuff like that. There there's some things that have been happening, like like the Asian girl, Black Lotus, Dario Quito. Dario Quito tells her something that if Dario Quito told me, I'd be like, I don't believe you. Yep. You're Dario Quito. And you're telling me that that face, that super face is the guy that killed that guy. Why would I believe?

How about I believe the truth that your brother, who regularly comes out with blood splattered clothes, you're telling me he didn't kill that person? Guts grabs ahold of Griffith, about to finally cut his head off and berserk. And Griffith goes, no, no, man, it was record. It was record, shit, super new exactly what I was going to say. You're right there. There's stuff like that. And Guts is like, huh, maybe it was record.

Exactly. Like that's that's the level of how ridiculous. There's just stuff where I'm like, I'm fine with believing it in universe. And then the next match on the card is Guts versus Rickert. Yeah. In a death match. Oh, okay. It's ridiculous.

There's just these things that are like compounded. You actually the stupidest person in the world. Are you are you really the stupidest? So, yeah, but guess what? In ring, it's only getting better, really. Dragon as Tech of Junior Prince of Prima, Prima, Prima starts to speak. And you know who Prince Prima is in real and in other things. And they just said, fuck it.

Just who cares what he sounds like? He can't even pronounce certain Mexican words. No, but he grew up in Boyle Heights. Oh, he grew up in Boyle Heights. True, true, true, true, true. That explains it. Yeah, that's safe. So yeah, I'm finally talks and it's great.

It's fine overall. But I'm like, it still is. I really appreciate how long they kept that going because there were all those. There is one fight. There's one match that is like he has a microphone and he's taking it to his mouth and he's like literally mouthing to speak and then like. Conan, Conan, Conan grabs it, like runs in and immediately attacks him. And it's like, and it's like, Puma has something to say to the audience.

Wait, was Puma like Black Bolt? Is he not allowed to fuck this big, lest he destroy that temple? And like fucking Vampiro and Straggler. I can't believe we're going to hear Puma speak. It's going to be crazy. I'll talk about that for one second. That reminds me that so you saw Vampiro in Amsterdam. No, it was there.

But the dumb bit that you that you you like started with the OK, the giant with the neck brace. Yes, you know the answer to this already. You know the already boring lame answer. I forget it then. The reason why I have an action figure of the giant with a neck brace on it is because that was part of a two pack. And my brother, my brother and I, we both got a toy.

And my toy was the Kevin Nash wolf pack version that came red and black. And it came with the giant with an injury on it. And then do Kevin Nash had a power bomb action. So you bend the giant over to do a power bomb. And I got my Kevin Nash out of it, which is a cool Kevin Nash toy. And my stupid brother got his giant with the neck brace on it. You're revealing that you didn't want giant with a neck brace, but you really wanted a cool power bomb action.

Kevin Nash makes it even labor. Why? Why? It's still a good Kevin Nash. If it was your brother's video, right? And then we also got the Goldberg that came with using a wheelchair. It's gold. It's regular Goldberg, but he comes with Ray Mysterio. But because Ray Mysterio is a free toy, Ray Mysterio is one of those like fake rubbery ones with no limbs.

It's just the cheap plastic mask one. And the Goldberg has full on jackhammer action where you squeeze his legs and his jackhammer hands go jackhammer hands go. Yeah. So that's what it was. It was about the Kevin Nash. I'm glad. I'm glad you cleared the battle of the Giants. I have one last thing to say since you mentioned Matt Stryker and Vampiro. We've complained about Vampiro's commentary before.

I I've I don't know if I'd call complaining. I love his terrible commentary. OK, now there's where you can complain about his terrible heel commentary or when like fucking Pentagon juniors in the match and they don't know what Vampiro could say. So he doesn't really say anything interesting. Yeah, what's really bad is when fucking Matt Stryker sets up for an interesting conversation where he goes,

do you really think this is a sound strategy vamp going for the nun chucks early and then Vampiro in real life doesn't know what to say and goes. I'm still caught up in the match. Matt, what are you talking about? No, I'm trying to get commentary going. Fucking asshole. Fucking speak.

It's not it's not like are you taking extra umbrage because the guy's name is Matt in this scenario? No, more personally associated not at all. Because because when someone's name is Matt Stryker, I focus on the Stryker, not the Matt, you know. If someone says someone goes, my name is Willie Thunderstruck. I'll go on the Thunderstruck, you know. Would you? Yes, I don't think I would.

It's a terrible name. It's a bad name. It's really bad. If someone says my name is TJ Storm, I'll be like, oh, those are both. Oh, I like those together. But the fact that like sometimes Vampiro will just not commentate refuses to say anything interesting like sometimes he's funny. Sometimes he can be funny, but otherwise like I just I'd rather just be Matt Stryker alone as someone who's been in that seat.

That is a difficult thing to do. I'm sure it is to commentate when you're getting nothing back from the other person. Oh, OK. I mean, now on a match or whatever is going on, like, dude, it's like. And then you can all you can do is repeat the same thing in a different way to see if they catch on the next. Yeah, you're sitting there with a commentator who it's like he's not there. They're not there to commentate.

They're there to watch the man. Yeah, right, right, right. It's like no mother first job. That's the thing with us. We've known each other for a while enough that I have to go. Hey, Pat, what about this thing? You'll have something. And if we're all make up some bullshit or if Willie goes, hey, Matt, what about that? I'll be like, yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And even though they go, my good friend, Matt Stryker, you know, my brother in arms, Vampiro, normally I wouldn't think that they knew each other at all. Anyway, I'm done. Dario told us we were friends. I'm fine. I'm done now. There's a lot of griping this week. A lot of gripes.

Um, why does Japan not like TN? Let's find out. Is it because they're bald and Japan hates bald people? Is it because I can't do these down to foreign motions? Let's just fucking go into it. Plague is a fucking baby with the fucking fighting game motions. What the fuck is wrong with that? It's really bad.

I argue with him up in the 20 hour. I'm not in these arguments, but I've been seeing them and I'm like they're real bad. Like he was like, Hey, why can't you do this? And you answered him properly. Yeah, he responds with, you know what I meant. And it's like, but he knew what you meant. Plague, just do a fireball. It's not hard. You can like the Dragon Ball game.

I mean, look, you know, Rising Thunder had the right idea, but that's not the only way to handle it. Simplified fighting games are a couple of there. There's a couple of ways to handle it. Why being all techful and shit? Yes, I can hear it. I can hear you stepping on glass because there's different ways to handle it.

Holding a button down has you have to design a game around the idea of holding a button down to activate something because then there's a delay from trigger with it. Yeah, exactly. And I mean, he's designed around that to create some problems, but that's that's true, but not everyone can be Ed. What can I say? I don't like fighting game motions.

I don't like Bloodborne. It's too fast. I like Minnat. I didn't get to talk about it. I spoke about her a lot. I don't like her at all. That's a shame because she is fucking awesome. It looks like a creative character from Soul Calibur.

So cool. I like can actually go find a photo of somebody making her in Soul Calibur as proof. I think she's cool. But I've seen a lot of people complain about actually playing as her. She's like, she's not worth it. I don't like her hair and color. A technical character for people that want to go to the lab. Yeah, that's what she is.

She's made for people that like that and the bullshit going on right now in the review in the replays we're watching is incredible. It's very. So Minnat has shown me something that that taunt animation that I didn't fully appreciate until Minnat came out. It has something to do with Minnat. It's that Abigail's hit boxes are abject nonsense. Yeah, yeah, they're absolute fantasy.

They have no bearing on reality. No, everything above his sternum. It doesn't exist like fireballs going straight through his face. Yeah, doesn't care, but it took it. But it took a character with that type of design to to make to bring that to reality. But it either. But in any case, from seeing her initial just like Minnat,

because she wiggles all over the place. Is that why everybody likes Minnat? No, everyone. No, I'm oh God, and everything got blurry. OK, it's fine. No, no, it's your eyes. The opposite. No, the. Oh, I thought you meant like you were wearing your sunglasses because your eye crusts.

I thought you were going blind there for a second. No, I'm fine. The no, the way the read the main reason a lot of people like Minnat is because of her gameplay, regardless of her design. She's got really interesting things with those balls and the placement that's very viola like. But her design is not hurting, you know, certainly. It's not making anyone dislike her.

Those animations are fun in the sun. Her animation is fantastic. I just I can't stand her. Like I saw a bunch of like modifications to her general design, like losing the arm, like the the the the sleeves or just minor or adding the minor modifications. And I like to all of those so much better than what her default is. Maybe my larger problem.

Well, come on. I mean, I don't know what to tell you. Like I saw her design when she showed up in Ed's story and the background is like, oh, I'm going to read your future or whatever. And I was like, ah, I'm not too fond of that. Bank of Sartre of this character. But then seeing the full version of it, I thought it looked a lot better than I expected.

Her different costumes are fun and the lower expectations. And now I just like what I saw. I don't know what to say. You know, you don't know. You don't like feet. You're not a foot man. What she wears. She's bare feet. So a lot of people are making a big deal about the fact that

the feet are out there and they're a thing because people. Why are you foot people so loud? The foot people are really loud. So confident. They're not going away any time. Like, I can kind of appreciate it because they're so like, yeah. I love the foot because because they have heroes like Quentin Tarantino there for them, you know,

making movies, zooming in on Wiggling the Big Toe. That's what they need. They just need a couple of champions out there to let them know that they're not that weird. They're it's pretty weird. Oh, no, it's not bad. I'm just like, it's weird. Yeah, I know it's weird.

But I guess you you can sort of like connect the dots to where it comes from. If you're into, like, you know, being stepped on or you're just like, oh, I'm one of those people that needs to kind of be like, shame. Did you know there was a there was a foot is really recent expansion. There's a 14 character in the trailer. She steps on a character and she's now the most popular. There you go. And the menace throw is that she steps on your face.

That's also 18 when 18 had a big stomping move. Oh, oh, God, the feet. Yeah, I just I said, everyone put us. Like, is there going to be that sometimes they're going to be a new like a new cerebral character that sticks her toe in your mouth. We're all around you know, there's a new Brawl Hall character. I don't know, man. I don't know.

I don't get it. But yeah, let's let's oh, oh, oh, dude, something that you should do for the first time. I also got to experience going to a Michelin rated restaurant. Sorry, what Michelin rated, you know, like the tire place. Yeah. Oh, OK, so here's a thing. So it sounds weird, right?

It does stars. But guess what? Michelin stars are the highest prestige rating. OK, it's what Mr. Gordon Ramsay uses to flout his big paintings. There you go. Exactly. So the Michelin fat roll fired fire tire man. Right. Right. Like that because he eats a good restaurant. So that that that company has a book they put out

or they review restaurants every year and they give one to star two stars or three stars and weird if you get a star, it's the biggest deal in the world. It's the hugest, biggest honor. OK, so and one star. And it's funny because one star, I believe, means somewhat interesting. Two stars means interesting and three stars means notable. You know, such a low bar. So it's getting any stars at all as a high bar type thing.

Yeah. And so there was a place called Sam Hood places and Sam Hood places right by Amsterdam Central. And it's like you you you get you kind of get what this big like what the big deal is with like high cuisine and what they call God, molecular gastronomy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Molecular gas. And it's a term that the chefs themselves hate because it sounds too fucking like ridiculously gastronomy

or always sounds like not. It doesn't hit my ears very well, but it's like you're trying too hard because they're like on a molecular level. We're using science to dictate how your tastes, whatever. But because I watch a couple of episodes of chef's chef's table exactly, right? So you kind of walk you go, how good can that shit really taste? That's exactly it.

Chef's table and zero dreams of sushi type stuff where you're like, what's the what is the other than you go and you sit and you eat it? And I mean, the experience in all is all fancy and nice. And that's great. Yeah. But when the shit gets in front of you and you put it in your mouth, it actually like you're tasting things that don't. Are you like tasting all of the molecules? You're tasting like five things.

Everything had five things happening at the same time, separately from each other. And then they come together to like be one final really good flavor. Is what most of the meals I could describe. There's only one place I've been to where I'm like, oh, OK, I can kind of. Yeah, I totally see what it does. I think it was when I went to Las Vegas the first time, not for Evo. We went to Giada's and it had like a Valentine's Day menu because we were on Valentine's Day and it was like these three courses

and it was locked in. Yeah. And I was like, fuck, I wanted to get like whatever I wanted. Oh, fuck you. You go to a place that's good. You do not get choices. So they didn't have a choice. And I was just like, oh, I'm not going to like this. And it was like it was what was it? It was God.

It was ravioli stuff with lobster. And I'm just like, oh, I just like ravioli with cheese or whatever. And it's only internally. I was like, oh, man, this is it. I know. What the hell, man? So I had that. And I was like, whoa, that was really good. And if you go in the main course was like, oh, that was so good, too.

And they were like the little baby plates that were just like two or three things as like an absurd asshole, picky, like myself. I cannot believe your attitude in this situation. It meant like and not it's a whole other but the whole other topic. But this shit I heard. I don't care for lobster that much. It's fine by actually prefer crap after getting after these breakfast yells for years, the shit I hear about what you will and will not pick

and choose on your menus and plates. Well, let me finish when I'm going to matter me. I'm talking to Matt. When I finished that meal, I was like, that's amazing. I want to go back and do it again. You got it. I want that meal. Your choices. You can't you don't you have to sit in a place where they're like,

we're going to fucking give it to you. And we know what you know better than you. Shut up with your stupid mouth. I can't. It was amazing. All right. And so these places are like you get a thing you have there. Well, that's the thing is I got a series of five things from five different years of their best things over the years, because it was like an anniversary.

This is food products. Forty to be. And it was and like you get like, OK, there's like some there was like duck with like a type of cream with like a slight glaze of chocolate around the edge. Weird. And you're like, it sounds weird. And you're like, this makes no sense. And then chocolate meat can be good. And then there was a bit of caviar and then a third thing.

But duck is really fatty. And you're like, I don't understand any of this, right? And then but then you just need they go. Here's how you do it. They tell you what you should put on your fork and they go. We suggest you just mix it all together and just like grab a thing with a little bit of everything on it. You put it all in and you go, wow, level one, level two, level three,

la, la, la, maximum. And it says we suggest you do this, though, is like always take that. Always 100 percent. Yeah. And like and everything they served was like that. Everything they served was like, again, you like actual flavor town. Fuck, fuck, stupid. Don't you dare. Frosted tips. Fucker. Don't you dare say fuck Guy Ferry.

Did you just turn in the guy Ferry for a second? No, he was talking about him channeling him. No drivers, no dynans, no driver died. Shit. Bravo, die. Back it up. Divers, dry nins and divers. Back it up. Divers, dry nins and dives and dines. Dines. Back it all the way up.

Just get out of this. Get out. Oh, God, damn it. Dirty Evo when I was hanging out in the green room there with one ego raptor and he was we're talking about Guy Ferry. He goes, Guy Ferry is this. You don't actually have to say words at all. Just speak like this. Here's a minute.

To the center of a minute. That's how he goes. And we're going to bed. We're going to bed again. With a spin on this. That it, that it. Like getting shade to animal here. He's got like he's got like a hip hop flow.

You know, you don't have to hear it. Kind of. All right, there it is. Guy Ferry has a hip hop flow said by Mr. Woolley there. Straight up. Right. You know, you know how you can tell who's rapping, even if you blur the words just by the. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it like me. Yeah, that's it. Always rapping. All right, Woolley, Woolley, I'm going to do a rapper.

You tell me who I'm doing. He's a bad bad bad bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Mr. Cow. Yes. OK, OK, OK, OK, right. The top that top. The top, the top, the top. Wu. The top that top, up.

Oh, no. Oh, that's an Eminem thing. You always got to say. He's always on the second syllable we don't know. I got no sure it'd be rug. So yeah, Guy Fieri. There you go. There you go.

The next great rapper of our time. That was perfect. What a fun dumbass. With his goddamn like O.G. Album Flavortown. The Flavortown LP. OK, one more. OK. Do the do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

Oh, I know this one. I know this one. You do it, though. It's that fucking give me money, money, shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. C.O.M.P. All right. That's it.

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Let's go with personal excitement. Personal excitement. Get it out of the way. All right. Well, you might have heard the good news. They figure out a way to make people taller? If you haven't, Nightmare Creatures 2017 is a thing. Nightmare Creatures is coming back.

And who bring it back, though, Matt? Who bring it back is Albino Amuse Games, makers of Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion. So how and what? Me and Willi are a bit on the ground floor on ground floor on this, where at Kurt is a voice on on this. It's a voice in it. And this is a prequel to the first Nightmare Creatures.

Because I boot up that Nightmare Creatures not too long ago and on the N64. And it mentions like, yo, this bad guy was doing shit way before this. And this is apparently going to be a prequel leading up to the events of Nightmare Creatures, which is seminal Nightmare Creatures. Yeah.

But it's weird because it's like coming this out now. It's like, you know, kind of blood like you saw that video of Bloodborne versus Nightmare Creatures. I didn't actually. There is a wall when I think it's not too long after Bloodborne came out. So we made a video of the exact same sequence happening in both games where you're fighting the exact same creature

with a move set that's very similar to one you would find in Bloodborne side by side. And when you and I took a look at Nightmare Creatures one, it was like you were like kind of subtly what? Whoa, this looks. This is like an ancient ghetto Bloodborne. Yeah, basically. So it's cool that this is coming back.

Yeah. Why so much noise about Nightmare Creatures now? Because it was an available IP. It sure was. It was just sitting there. Just sitting. That's cool. I'm going to buy the IP for Mace the Dark Age.

Yeah, are you? Hey, I told you to do it. I mean, do it. Maybe, maybe I'll do it. If it's sitting on the floor and no one wants it, but the fans want it, then like shouldn't the fans pick it up. Mace the Dark Age and when we could do a bunch of stupid shit. Yeah, like fucking Lord Demos side scrolling adventure.

Yeah, versus Mordos Calls. Mordos Calls runner. Yeah. OK, I'm in. I'm in and they they announced this really, really, or they announced that we have we are working on this. So there's just a couple of like environmental shots and that look very similar to the locations in Nightmare.

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, an ass London announced the packs. So shout outs to Albino Moose, LLC. That's definitely personal. That's personal excitement. Definitely. Yeah, that is a labor of love. When is the long awaited revival to Death Trap Dungeon?

Don't even talk about that. I booted that up not too long ago and I played like 10 minutes and I was like, whoa, the only thing worse than playing Death Trap Dungeon is not playing. Yeah, yeah. Is the actual ad and the full page ad. What a terrible tagline. Exactly. That is the stoop.

Oh, man, that game is terrible. Man, this game sucks. But you know what sucks? Not playing this game. This sucky game. Right. Anything else? Announced the packs. Well, I mean, lots of things.

But I guess we can start out with a little boy named Travis Touchdown. A lot of people like, hey, Matt, there's a new No More Heroes game. Like, but in the guys that. This just was announced for the first time ever. Yeah. Now when forgetting about the part where they announced it live on stage recording Dead Space, we finished Dead Space. I checked my room before Matt and I go, and I just pulled the trailer up and he goes, OK, yeah, I'll watch this.

Oh, look at this. And then we finished watching it. And then he pulls out his phone for the first time and goes. Yeah, just look at my notification over the course of recording Dead Space. Yeah, this is like a thousand people came in to be expected. I'll just get my personal stuff out of the way on this. Is that like I think the concept of Travis Strikes Back No More Heroes, not No More Heroes 3, officially called is really fun.

I always thought that the whole thing of Travis being a fourth wall breaking in like video game pro pro pro Dagon Eye was always kind of downplayed a little bit. I'm like, you could have had more fun with that. They always kind of like just barely, rarely ever. They touched a little bit on this, too. Yeah, yeah, in the intro near the ending, you look at the player and say something like where you would go to

like a Resident Evil 4 themed level. Yeah, yeah, like you go to a no more sorry, Metal Gear Solid level. And I thought that's what it was going to be. But then I kind of stopped doing that No More Heroes 2. So this is really fun. I think the concept is really good. But I don't like some of the quotes Suda gave in interviews where he was like, this is going to be a smaller scale thing.

It's going to I'm going to have a small switch game less staff on it than No More Heroes 2. That's the one part. I'm like, really? Because that seems like you didn't have a lot of people on that at all. The I mean, the the the game play description, too, of it's an action game. But it's super tiny in the sense that he's already describing how this is about Travis versus a bad man.

Yeah, bad girl, bad girl's father. And they get sucked into a console with six different the same console that Uncle Death plays on and let it die. So you've got six different game types that they're going to go through in each game. And we know two of them. So then they have me in fucking show. So then it's going to be a it's going to be a small game. I've I've I've made some inquiries.

Is it possible that the Baz could maybe exchange a glancing look, I mean, at Travis? OK, OK, anything. Shovel Knight, guys, when when they come over and they're like, OK, what can we use? Tell them you have the legal rights to use anything as much as you want. No, I already already said that you own that character. Yeah, they ask you you own that character. Don't worry about it. Just take it and don't look back.

So like the trailer and everything was fun. I don't I don't know why it was audio mix this way. So there's a website for that trailer with much better audio mix. OK, because you can barely hear what people are saying. Yeah. Well, you can definitely hear is that it is not Robert Atkin down saying it. No, it is not. And that is our second news. Our third news story, technically, sure, is that Robert Atkin down's basically

in the same position as David Hader going. Oof, that's not some people are saying that he's in a different position. Some people are saying this might still be a right. He's on strike. He's on strike. But he's also going like, hey, guys, I wish it was me. Come on, brother, join me. Let's do this together. Well, it's it's like this is this is complex.

Because by all means, the voice actors, if they want a better cut out of their deal, should go on strike. The problem is that that voice acting guilt doesn't even come close to actually representing all active working voice actors. And it's like he wishes he was in it. But it's like, but you're on strike. You can't wish that you were in it. You're on strike.

I think it's like the thing is that voice acting is usually a latter thing that gets done. So I think it's like, please consider me. I want to still do this role when maybe sure. But it's like, what does Travis's shirt say? Unreal Engine is for, yeah, raced, wasted resources or something. OK, I don't know. But like, you know, it's it's like, Suda doesn't have the possibility that the potential to like,

there's the death, the demands of the voice acting guilt on his own. But also more so than that, Chris Zimmerman, Salter, that did all the voice acting directing for all the most. I think all the Metal Gear solids, almost maybe starting from two, like, did all the voice acting direct direction for Norma hers one and two. Do they have a say in this? Because Metal Gear and No More Heroes have a lot of overlap, a lot of the same voice actors did voices for everyone there.

And and fucking Miller is Travis and Travis. Right. Casio, what does that say? Is wasted resource. Unreal Engine is calling is filling, fulfilling, fulfilling, wasted resources. And it's something, something. So like I said, and the Unreal Engine is like a skull and crossbones. And and and and fucking Suda is wearing

an Unreal Engine shirt all weekend, except for when he picked out the Sheldonite shirt. So, Willie, you'd be interested to know that apparently a few weeks ago, Grasshopper or something was like really talking up Danganronpa. Yeah, man, want to do some Danganronpa shit. Love that Danganronpa can't get more Japanese indie than that. So that would be another one of those games. That was our three solid choices off the bat. There's going to be six Shovel Knight.

Holla, Miami, Danganronpa, Danganronpa. That's a long girl with the details going to dunk all over you or something. And the thing is, you know, exactly with that with Dangan, too, you know, exactly, it's just it's going to be a courtroom case, like a Phoenix Wright courtroom case. Yeah, because that's what you end up really getting the iconic gameplay out of. Yeah. So I'll say about Robin Ackendowns, though. There's a there's it's a slightly different to David Hader,

whereas like David Hader is playing solid snake where he's like a parody of an action hero that talks gruff. And that's basically it at the end of the day. Still very good at it. But like Travis is like there's like there's like comedy in his role. He sometimes gets serious and like the role is more cartoony. So it's even more like it's even more harder to replace. I think it's I think writing off David Hader is just a parody of an action.

No, I think because I think the distinction that Matt's trying to make is that David Hader is playing a character using a certain range of his voice. Yeah, that doesn't Robert Ackendowns is embodying a character and playing the full range of his actual voice. That's that's that's 100 percent what I mean. So like Kiefer Sutherland does a pretty passable big boss slash solid snake because he gruffs it up. Yeah, whereas no one's ever going to sound like Robert Ackendowns

because it's the specific Robert Ackendowns voice voice. Even even with the bad audio mix thing, I said before Robin Ackendowns talked to on Twitter officially, I was like, that doesn't sound like him. And a lot of people are like, no, no, I'm pretty sure that's something. And some people were like, well, if you recall, the first very first No More Heroes One trailer, it was not him. They added him later.

So that's true. That's true. But the first like barely anything trailer for No More Heroes Two, where Travis said one thing was Robin Ackendowns, because I'm like, I'm like 50 50. Is is No More Heroes like Devil May Cry and that they only have an English dub or is there a Japanese? No, I believe there's a Japanese. OK, because Capcom was who's your acce?

It really does. Because he's a Toriyasu touchdown who is in Japanese, I believe. Yeah, Travis is Tiger in Japan. Yeah, they just call him Tiger Touchdown. They really to my knowledge, Capcom's the only one that does that. And they do it with Resident Evil. They do it with Devil May Cry. They do it with Resident Evil. Devil May Cry are the two big ones.

Yeah, they don't. They don't have Japanese dubs because the characters are supposed to be English, English American characters. Yeah. But like the No More Heroes one point five little animation that that came out of the Hoppers Edition was all only in Japanese. And that was like a 10 minute long animation. It's also interesting how much of the game was not a game,

but like how much was revealed right away in the in the in the sense that like the Travis's shirt in that first reveal was just the title of the game. Yeah. And then you see a pseudo wearing the the hotline Miami clothes and stuff like that. Like he's pulling up a shirt showing off. I have to I have to say that watching that trailer before seeing any news really, really had a fucking fantastic impact where was what I watched with Matt, right?

And Matt goes, that's hotline Miami music. And it turns out it's like it's Travis just playing hotline Miami. Because Suda was on that the fucking Devolver Digital E3 thing. Yeah. Yeah. So any any other musings he's made with other companies before this, you can probably assume that you'd be cool if they go into No More Heroes World. Any fights, Travis?

Any fights, Travis? Like a dumb video game version of Travis. That would be so one of the games could just be fucking Glastonbury, whatever, whatever. I could be a pure white giant Glastonbury. Yeah. OK, why not? So I just looked up Devolver Digital because they're interesting. So I wanted to I am not super familiar with every game they published, right? So I'm like, what do they got?

They got Shadow Warrior. Yeah. They got Broforce. They got Strafe. They got Talos Principle. Are you are you they have a solver? You know, do you know Devolver? Of course I do. But I forget what games they're specifically involved in.

Ruiner, Ruiner. Yeah. Travis does have a Ruiner. Yeah. Right. It's like he can fight the cat from Talos Principle. That awesome one that's 2D with the pixels that has lots of blood and violence in it, that one. Yeah, you make jokes. But then the jokes become real.

Tiny Build, Tiny Build would be a great publisher to kind of team up with or they're pretty indie. So so I am disappointed. There was no like even a hint of game play. Oh, I super forgot that they also did enter the gungeon and Mother Russia Bleeds. Yeah, please. Mother Russia Bleeds. No, but there's only going to be one Devolver game.

And it's Hall of Miami. That's the one to fucking pick. Oh, really? They're going to go to different devs and get that's the entire thing. Wait, it's all they said. I'm soft. No, they said every world will be a different game, the different publisher.

Oh, I saw a different game, but I didn't see different publisher. Spike Chunsoft. Yeah, go to the Titanic replica in 999. Fight zero. City shrouded in shadow or or just go to Walrosa and fucking join Aaron in the core. That's not indie enough. Yeah, that's very indie.

All right. So that's very exciting. Was not expecting this trailer because the Nintendo Nindies like event had some cool little games. But I was like, yeah, that was a fine presentation. And then whenever like I literally stopped watching it because I didn't know that trailer was connected with No More Heroes. We watch the No More Heroes trailer separate from that.

So when I was like, wow, they got that in the very end of that. That's that's pretty cool. I'm like glad that they did that. So yeah, a fun idea. I hope it's not like two hours long. I hope five hours long. If I be fine with five hours, honestly, I would. And and like the it makes me realize to just seeing that, like, man,

I really do like that art style that the other. High contrast, no more heroes. Shad is still effective. Still works. Still looks good. Switch talking to a friend of mine, which you brought up. You brought up what what actually really matters. And here's waiting for the Hotline Miami remix of the No More Heroes theme.

And the show and the Shovel Knight remix of the No More Heroes theme and so on and so forth. Damn, the No More Heroes track is amazing. I'm not sure if you saw it. Like, as soon as you did say, I'm this is going to be this can be played with one joy con, which I'm not a fan of. It just means that, although it did lead to a question saying, well, if there's one joy con being used, what's the other one being used for?

Is there any sort of multiplayer mode? And goes, I can't talk about that, which means there's something which I'm fucking down. Shovel Knight and Travis teaming up to fight bad man. Anything and the heartless. It's an exciting it's an exciting avenue to go down with this rather than just, hey, No More Heroes three, it's a sequel. There's genes in it again and and Sylvia.

Like, I would actually be less pizza, but junior junior junior. I like, yeah, I'm glad as well that it's not the same thing in a different mini adventure. Yeah, like I, in fact, if they do ever come up with the No More Heroes three proper, I would hope for something weirdly different from the assassin. It's weird that they said this game. Travis strikes again takes place seven years after No More Heroes one. But before everyone.

No, everyone's like, wait, what? No, because No More Heroes two takes place two years after No More Heroes. But they said between one and two. Yeah. Did they? Yeah, they said between one and two. That's weird. Yeah, it is. This is this is an in-betweener because in No More the intro of No More Heroes two says it's been two years. So this is a year later then, I guess. Who cares?

It's very confusing. Whatever. It's awesome. Lies. It better be good. Can we get just can we just have a spin off and have Henry get his own actual like he continues the No More Heroes franchise? Yeah, no, no, I've always said No More Heroes three should be Shinobu. That would be acceptable as well. Fighting Travis. That would be acceptable. But I definitely am done with Henry being being playable.

That's fine, too. Yeah. Anyway, other announcements from Pax include the good life. Yay. What do you make of this? We haven't talked about that. No, we know kind of well, it was always in kind of a transitional period when we had in a podcast. Swarie saying that this is not indicative of the final quality.

No, no, but hand in hand with this announcement is the announcement of the FIG campaign. OK, what the this is where I'm like, I start breaking down going like, what the fuck? What the fuck is FIG? OK, FIG is like Kickstarter. Why isn't it on Kickstarter? Because FIG is where people people invest and get shares in the game and make money back, depending on how you remember how one of the larger

complaints about Kickstarter is people that wanted to put larger amounts of money in, but they're like, why would I put this money in when I'm not going to get anything back because I'm not investing in it? Yeah, one of my getting other than getting dinner with people are going like, I feel ripped that I'm doing this as a donation instead of as an investment. Well, people with bigger money and that want to spend capital. So FIG shows up and Pillars, too, was the first big game that I remember being associated with it.

Well, it was founded by Schaefer and crew. Oh, was it? OK. So this is doing it as well. It's like, OK, you can treat this like a Kickstarter. You can just go. It's like, I want my 10 bucks and it's my early bird copy or, you know, whatever it happens to be, right? Or if you have a lot of more money to just throw at it,

you can get dividends on the game sales. So if you are a and if you're an investor straight up, like you're more than just a Kickstarter backer that wants to buy the game and go, hey, I support with my money. Yeah, you want to get money back. Yeah, you can treat this as like, you know, an actual portfolio, if you would, and throw down a lot of money. And depending on how successful the game is, make back share. So to answer your question, Matt, the benefit is for

well, for people that are going to throw in bigger amounts of money, they can actually get some money back if the game does well, because I always see when when something's on Kickstarter and it's on Indiegogo, I see people complaining, like, I don't fucking use Indiegogo with the fuck. Yeah. And usually another service. I was like, oh, that's not good. And it's and it's always that sounds good. And yeah, well, it's always based on what the the team wants.

Do they want the money right away? Do they want like no, you know, sort of guarantees? Do they like people picking for different reasons? Right. Some people like Kickstarter takes too much of a giant. Since we started this this podcast, a lot of people have accused me of having paid the thirty four thousand dollar tier to become a character in the good life. I have not bought that here.

OK, good. But someone fucking did. Well, what we know, that's incredible. What we know about the good life now as a game is a murder mystery. It appears to be a cartoonier or more like less realistic version of deadly premonition, except you're an American photographer in England, in an English village. And everyone turns into cats at night.

I wanted to. Amazing. I want to mention one last thing about big for the developers. There's also a substantial benefit in that pillars, too, actually made almost as much money for its campaign as the first one did. Even though there were way less backers. And that's because you can actually go to a big page and see what is donations and what's or what's pledges and what's investments. OK, and it's 50 50.

So like for big funds, like that's like two and a half million dollars from like a couple thousand people. Right. Total. And you can you can continue to invest in them like over time. So it's it's you could possibly get a lot more money to develop your game if you do that. Going into the actual game itself, like I think the artwork is really strong, but like these, even though it's not really representative, I like I kind of dig

the low polygon look for the environments. But the actual people need to be a bit more detailed to get like more expressions because they seem like they should be slightly less detailed. Well, yeah, OK, no, no, that's what I mean. And like they need to be slightly less detailed and 64 or like artwork. Just a picture rather than like these. You want you want overalls don't look amazing. You want overworld cloud.

Overworld cloud. Yeah. Yeah. I want their faces to be drawings. I want it to be like to like like like Wind Waker link. OK. Like for expressions. Well, yeah. Here you're seeing a sort of in between where I mean, and of course, it's like crisp ass resolution on these deliberately low poly characters. Yeah. But the world doesn't always look low poly. The world looks like basic, but the characters themselves are like

Virtua Fighter two ish. Yeah, I'd say Virtua Fighter two ish. Between one and two. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's an odd choice. It's an odd choice. It's very not Japanese. No, that. Yeah, for clear. It's very like clearly the opposite. And then you turn into cats at night. And that's a whole other mechanic that is.

So I follow Swear in Twitter like most people do. And he follows more people than I've ever seen anyone follow. He follows the most random people. Like, yeah, well, I think I think he he incorporates the hip hop's Instagram style. Yeah, follow back. Yeah, exactly. Right. But Sweary, I think once a day says, drank too much, going to bed. And the like like a whole minute of this trailer is devoted to drinking.

Yeah, you see the main character, this this American woman photographer, just drink. Oh, no, I waste all my money on drinks. Oh, no, I should probably save this. But it seems like a very fun, intriguing project. Like I'm going to now look into all my fucking God. It has a murder. That's the whole point of the fucking game. Did you did you miss? I missed that part.

There's a killer through it. Oh, there's a murder mystery that needs solving. I didn't realize there was a murder. That's the deadly premonition comparison. Well, I mean, that's the everything comparison. Well, I mean, in D4, it was like, where'd Peggy go? Oh, man, what if the end of this like turns out to be it was the sequel? Little Peggy killed a sequel all along.

Yeah, that'd be cool. I guess what they want to sequel to D4 more than anything. You know what, I would take over that sitting down with Suda, and he just tells me what was going to be the game. Suda. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, Suda. Now, Willie, I'm going to send it to you later. But there's this video.

There's a video I saw this morning. The first thing you don't have to send it to me. I've seen it. What? Wolfpack for life. You did. OK. Yeah. Don't turn your back on the wolf pack. Sweary and Suda doing the fucking. It's where he's wearing a fucking gigantic white puffy fur coat. I love these people.

It's amazing. Oh, yeah. They look like they're having so much fun. They would have fun. You add Kamiya in there. That would be a wrestling super group. Oh, God. Kamiya was busy. Authors, Japanese authors.

Kamiya was busy playing as Taz. Yeah. Was he really? Yeah. Crazy. Kamiya was busy, you know, bulking up for the movie adaptation of Persona 5. Wait, Kamiya or Kojima? I guess so. He looks just like him, man.

Kojima spent his morning. His glasses are the same. Dude, I would vote. I would vote for Kamiya. Hideki Samayel, Kamiya. Oh, you. And he speaks with Char's voice somehow. That'd be great. That'd be great.

Oh, we got a picture of Guy Gann this morning. That's good. That's good. Thanks. It's like more of a nerd than me. You know, it's awesome. What's awesome? A Super Nintendo. Why do I want this? I want this so bad because you want to watch your Super

Nintendo light on fire. No, I would never put it in a Super Nintendo. I want it for the cool box and the the instruction manual and it's a red cartridge. It's cool. Why is Capcom's release of SF2 burning your Super Nintendo's? So I think so. Yeah, what's what do you think? There's there's hot takes and there's hot takes.

Very hot takes. Burning takes. Get your oven. Bunny. So my initial reaction is I am a bit. What the fuck are you doing, right? And then my second reaction is, is it possible that this is just a disclaimer out there for anyone who still has a Super Nintendo in the sense that it's old

and and might be a risky to use this in any way in general? It like, is it that kind of thing? Or is it that this cartridge actually is a problem and a weird, not normal cartridge that is risky because it makes no sense that you would release it, right? You just make a not problematic burning cartridge. Yeah. And so I'm wondering if it's like, or why can't you just release

a cartridge, then just ship it with a USB that has the actual game that could be. So I am a bit said that the new brand, the brand new playable SNES cartridges cartridge for a playable Street Fighter two on the SNES. It's the 30th anniversary release, re-release. And it says use the product at use of the product is at the sole risk of the user. SNES hardware is deemed to deemed a vintage collectible. So please exercise extreme caution when using the product

and make sure that there is a fire extinguisher nearby. What's the next part in the article? It's not what they said, but what's the sentence right after the equipment nearby? This no, right? Right above the warning continues in somewhat terrifying fashion. Yeah, terrifying is the word that the Eurogamer has used. It's bizarre, but the flames that may shoot out of this cartridge will seek and destroy all babies and children.

Willie, Willie, do you not want that big box? It's nice that the art is huge and bigger than it ever was. I already have that box, but I want that. I. Yeah, I have it, but I take it if I see it. Yeah, I'm not going to go hunting it down, but I'll take it, you know, whatever. Like I've got I've got the only one I in fact, you know what I want? More than that is the Genesis one with Bison and Gail on the cover. That's that's that's a that's a superior piece of art.

Yeah, so it's really good. That one, you know, I don't like turbo's art of fucking Honda and a sad, like cancerous looking sagot just falling down, looking depressed. We've been over this. It's better than you think. And you already forgot. There's three characters on that box. Oh, it was the third.

Dalsym hidden in the fans. It's true. Dalsym doing a yoga teleport hidden in the hands. I forgot about that. You did. That's weird. The Street Fighter Barks are critique is like the second most but like right behind Mega Man, like people wanted to know.

Nice. I still want that fucking cartridge. You know what else people want to know? What do they want to know? They want to know about their Kamen writers. So thankfully we're getting. It sucks. There's no gameplay of this.

Yeah, it will you get two seconds of it at the end and then really do covered by some bullshit. But here's what you're getting. Here's your eyes of heaven Kamen writer game. OK, what's yeah. What's that common writer that guy? I don't know. He's cool.

He's the newest one. He's a really cool new design. I guess what? There's a lot of Kamen writers because they're cool. And so I want to see this little piece. So you get a little bit of it. It's eyes of heaven. Eyes of heaven.

Yeah, it's it's eyes of heaven. Kamen. Yeah, absolutely. Eyes of Kamen. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It's OK. It's an OK thing. But you know, it's fine.

It's a better implement for Cyber Connect than the. Is this Cyber Connect? No, it's just an coban. OK, it's a better implement than a fighting game because eyes of heaven's game play was goofy and busted. But it was more fun in the eights. Goofy and busted in this. Then I'll start battle.

Yeah. Yeah, I remember people showing me that design build. I think I'm saying I build and I'm just like, that's a fucking good ass Kamen writer design. Good shit. Good shit. Can I build?

OK. Anyway, so I like that. The thing we'll do that. We've been wanting to do something with the Kamen Rider fighting games for a while. Yeah, I'd want to make out. I think that that would be the one. Yeah.

Well, I mean, show off everybody how wrong in surface level we are about Kamen Rider. Absolutely. Can't wait. I'm very surface. There's a ton of picks, though. I liked Kabuto. I like I like Skull. I like the cooking arc.

But I like Skull because people told me I should like Skull. What's what's Skull from? Yeah. Yeah. Kamen Rider. Joka. It's from Kamen Rider. Nailed it.

He's from Joker. Yeah. Um, hey, you know, who's the best Mishima as Zabi? Sure. That's the best moment. I'll just I'll take kick hopper before he even transforms with his fucking spurs and stirrups. I love it.

Anyway, hopper sucks compared to kick hopper. Kick hopper is such a fucking cool guy. Kick hopper is so cool. I want you to get that gimmick is so stupid, but it's cool. We're losers. Oh, oh, we're the biggest losers. But that's your loser power. That's how we'll win.

You know who else is a big fucking loser? Vincent. No, depending on how you finish that game, he's the biggest winner. He's a loser, no matter what. No, you haven't seen the true ending. No, he's a loser at heart. Even if he wins in real life, he's still a loser in his heart.

If you win in real life, you're not a loser. There is one ending in particular. He's such a winner. You can't not be the biggest, hardest winner of all time. God, I hope there's like another, the true demon ending. There's better be a fucking other Catherine. It's called the true demon ending. Yeah, it is the best.

The true demon ending is the ending you get in SMT games when you go full chaos. Oh, OK, that's what this is. Yeah, what? It's fucking amazing. It's amazing. It's amazing. Better be a new Catherine.

So lead up this. This better pay off, Willie. So I'm holding you responsible. Well, here's here's the weird part now. Here's where I where I jump in and I say that there's the story is that Atlas is possibly teasing Catherine to a lot. I don't even want a new Catherine. I do. I want.

I want a new story with a new guy that fights over two girls, also named Catherine. I want I want Sophie or Joey. I want Jessica or here's what's better than Catherine to what new stories that take place within the Golden Playhouse. Sure, but it still needs to be called Catherine to for marketing purposes. I don't think so. I don't know.

I don't think so as well. But like, because right now, well, here's what right now I'm close to it's close to doing what I want. It is because the tease is actually exactly what I'm hoping for, which is midnight Venus coming out and talking. All right. And so Catherine again, Catherine is a story taking place. But the framing device is the Golden Playhouse.

I want the Golden Playhouse to exist for other stories. Call it whatever you want. And that subtitle be Shadows of Catherine. Sure, like Shadows of War, like Shadows of Katmai. But instead of Katmai, it's Catherine. Or you just call it Catherine to and then it has nothing to do with Catherine. Electric Boogaloo. Yeah, we could do that. Atlas doesn't need to do that dumb name thing.

They can make a new game with a new story and have that thing for fun because they're fucking they got money. Jessica Jessica with a J and Jessica with a G. Because hey, you know what? Yeah, there it is. Guess what? Jessica. But but here's the thing. Guess what? Back when Catherine didn't exist, the idea of making a brand new thing called Catherine was risky. It was, you know, and now we like it and know.

So it's like, you can just do that. Hopefully they get rid of those stupid block puzzles. You can take the same risk you took putting the first game out to make another one. Nothing wrong with that. The the actual event was a stream that they had where they were looking for staff to hire at Studio Zero. And the Atlas Stream basically had a fully voice acted segment where Midnight Venus shows up and basically makes a couple jokes implying.

There's a new game coming out from their studio soon. And she's looking forward to it. Japan does a thing where they'll take like a character and then that character will poke the development crew and be like, when am I going to get a job? Huh? Right. There's a new job coming. Right. Right. That's so Japanese. I'm having more and more trouble.

No one has a fucking Kratos cost player poking David Jaffe or Corey Barlog or whoever is directing whoever got fired from the last game. And he pokes and was like, why am I going to get another game? No one like that or like a cutscene of him ripping the devs heads off. Yeah, exactly. No one does that in America. I find it harder and harder to watch like Japanese streams of stuff because they never get because they take so long to do. There was there was a 14 recent 14 one recently.

And they returned to Ivalice. Then they they yeah, they showed off a bunch of stuff with the game and then they had Matsuno come out. You know, the creator of Ivalice and FFT. Like, yeah. And I was like, oh, it's only 50 minutes into a two hour stream. I wonder what they're going to talk about. They're just going to get drunk and talk about bullshit. Nothing happens.

And they're going to say, hey, we're putting back the yokai event because the level five CEO didn't finish it. So he's going to ask us to turn it back on for three months so we can grind it out. The Capcom streams are just grand wastes of everyone's time. Remember the metal gear? Amazing. The ones were the worst.

Do you remember? No, no, no, no. No, the worst one was that Metal Gear stream where they showed watches. They showed underwear for like three hours. And everyone's like, fuck this stream. Everyone, every American logs off. Then they show fucking ground zero. I was right at the end. I don't think Japan's figured out Twitch yet.

Yeah, I at least corporate. I don't think corporate Japan, their video game understands it streams. And they are all variety shows. They are all because they're treating it like a television show in Japan, as opposed to an information revealing platform. There's always a picture of someone's face. As they're reacting to this shit stream. And I know it's not just Canadians, Americans,

British and English speakers that are getting mad at this. I see angry comments in all sorts of languages. How can I tell they're angry? Because they're in all caps with exclamation points. But before we reveal the news, we got to cut to Tarot Chan segment. The inside joke of the office. Here he comes. Oh, that guy wears three shades on his head.

He's crazy. His tarot. Fifteen minutes of this tarot. What a character. That's it. So we're going to have. Don't get me started on that. So we're going to have a new level next time.

OK, bye. And the stream ends. Oh, man, like catch your shit together. You could cut down these fucking streams by like 80 percent. That's like when Nintendo has a stream thing or like like a whatever. Nintendo gets it. And it like they'll they'll have the streams. And they'll be almost identical in how they're done.

And like maybe the Japanese one will have like two extra announcements or slightly more footage. But they're the same thing, essentially, in each in each. What's the name of the game? What's the information about the game? Show me a trailer. Great. We're done. We're done. They're all these other fun streams that are just like that.

They just want to have fun. They don't care about it. Short patterns. How will I be able to type? Why are you? I want to go into the into the chat and have it scroll across the screen. I can't. Long enough. I can't believe people actually watch videos on Nico.

That blows me away. You match now poisonous, that would be if that feature existed on YouTube where when somebody made the comment during the video. Oh, do you mean the thing that currently exists in Facebook Live right now? Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah. Where I popped up. I forgot. Well, it was a recent tragedy. Something horrible happened recently

and I forgot which one it was. There's a lot, but I popped up my thing and I was watching it. And I fucking it auto like when you click on it, it auto full screens. And in full screen mode, all I'm seeing is the comments of people that are also watching it live, popping up. And then you know, the little Facebook emojis, the five that you pick from or whatever. Each time someone has one, it's flying across the screen and a little like ghost heart, little ghost laugh, LOL.

And all you're seeing is the little LOL faces of like, of like whatever the fuck it was that happened. I don't know, but people died and it was and I'm just like, this is how I'm getting my news right now. And I remember trying to minimize and find a way to turn it off. And I couldn't. So I was like, that's what I get for being on Facebook and getting my news from there. That was my fault. That was my mistake.

That was straight up your fault. Yep. But being said, who? Yeah. Well, like some some social media person. I I struggle to use the word person as like a marketing person in a social media company. So social was like, hey, what if we did this? Increase the engagement. Yeah. And it was like, was it Macho Man? Yeah, it was increased on the rocket shit.

It fucking works on Nico Nico. They love that shit. Yeah. Because what's more important than seeing what my other viewers are feeling? What's more important than the collective conscious idea? Yeah, collective consciousness, lose control. Right. And those personas. OK, yeah. Those little pop ups at the bottom of random comments of what people are feeling. Then Akihiko shows up and he says he's been waiting for it.

What better way to understand everyone's feelings than to see them constantly overload, overlaid over your own vision? I'm good. Yeah. Is this a Black Mirror episode? It fucking might as well be. I think every Japanese stream is a Black Mirror. Japan, a Black Mirror episode. Oh, God, because I'm thinking about it. I think it is.

Low birth rate, social isolation, collectivism, etc. Bad streams. The problem comes very bad stream in Black Mirror. There are no good streams. The problem comes from within. Yeah. The outside is perfect. Everything is always as it should have been. You have to fix it yourself.

It's just world out from within. That's where the problem is. Well, granted, there's a lot of problems in here. But I mean, that's fine. Well, anyway, I feel like dead inside now. Great. I can I can help you with that. I just I just like shudder to think what it would be like if I watched a video of ours with the live comments on it.

I can help you with that. Yeah. Oh, did you? You seem like you almost did. Would you like some assistance with your deadness inside? Hey, I want to pet. How do you like that night's figure for Sonic Forces? People keep sending me this image. OK, so here's the thing.

All right, story. Sonic Forces launches November 7th in North America. Game looks terrible, but that's especially in comparison to Mania. Yeah. Oh, you don't. You don't like the music. Continue on. I don't like the fact that it looks like a shitty 3D Sonic game. OK, well, anyway, the bonus includes

Sega Atlas pack for hero characters. Yep. So you get some sexeries and stuff you can use for your custom Sonic character. And never, ever, ever, ever have I ever felt like the duality of man. Yeah. As hard as I did in that first second, where the first thing you see is jet sent radio beat accessories on your Sonic character and your Sonic OC immediately

followed by Persona 5 Joker accessories on your Sonic OC, which. OK, so just the Sonic. OK, OK, so everyone understands that the Joker one is horrible looking. But many people are having trouble articulating just why it's so disturbing. I will help you. It's very easy. It's the hands.

Sonic characters wear gloves when they have human hands. Yeah, to disguise the fact that that form of their goddamn like body is actually disproportionate. Ah, OK. They wear gloves on their hands. It's probably actually because it's probably actually a side effect of them just coffee, many fingers, Looney Tunes stuff. Yeah, yeah, right.

And it's like it's classic that those kinds of animal characters wear gloves. But as we can see, a Sonic style character that doesn't wear gloves has horrific giant human hands. Even the fingerless gloves on the jet set radio one like do the function. It kind of as fools your brain. Also thinking it looks also no fur on the hands. Also really creepy and weird. Now, now, Pat, think about for one second.

You've played a lot of Persona 5. I beat the person you've played a lot of Persona 5. Every time you get an all out attack that kills everybody with Joker. That's right. What happens? He drops down, strikes a cool pose and tugs at his red gloves. His bright red gloves, which are after his mask, the most defining aspect of his character design. What are you doing?

Look, what are you doing? You have bright crimson red. It is the most iconic part of the character. Scroll down a bit. Look at the core color of the game. It's the whole thing in his design. Scroll down a bit because, like, you know, that's fine. But look how shitty the night's one looks like where it's got just a

the snout of whatever character like overlaid on top of a different. Hey, you know what, skin tone. That's appropriate for night's. Is it? Yes. Look how horrid the super monkey ball looks. Night's is not a good game. Like night's is almost identical minus the fucking minus that homer mouth. Yeah, it's a homer mouth.

Yeah. So they took I'm looking at I just just a check. I'm looking up Joker again. It's like, yeah, the red gloves are the only splash of color on his entirely black body, which is supposed to be the single part of contrast to accentuate his hands and here his hands are accentuated. So anyway, but they're horrific anyway. It's like the same accessories that go on to your Microsoft avatars. Yeah, that's really what it looks like.

Yeah, yeah. That being said, Jet Set Radio Sonic needs to be a thing. So I support the clashing of those worlds. That's the only one of that group that looks even good. Well, because it's thematically like we've been waiting for it. You know, I guess like even the monkey ball one looks terrible. But yeah, you can get a shitty controller skin. It's weird that like another anthro character like monkey ball

guy doesn't fit in the sonic style at all because it looks horrific and lanky and weird. Yeah, it's not modern sonic is dumb. I mean, Whitehead is the future. And speaking of weird 3D things that don't look like they should. All right. That's I'm creeped out. What do we got? So the problem I've identified the problem. I saw the story.

I saw somebody let me introduce. I don't even have artists anymore. So here's the problem in the story. Capcom, Vancouver. So a puzzle fighter has been announced by Capcom. iOS and Android devices being developed by Capcom. Vancouver will launch as a free free to play title this year. Now there's a trailer and in the trailer,

you can check out the new 3D designs for the characters. It's a puzzle fighter. It's a mobile game. Whatever, who cares, right? It's fine. Puzzle fighter, fun game. Characters fight each other. It's got Mega Man X in it. That's cool. It's got solid snake in it. Capcom, Vancouver is doing the weird thing where they're doing

SD characters with American design ideals. It looks like every fucking free to play mobile game in the world, like how the characters are rendered. I cannot adequately describe or explain why, but these are the Morgan's the worst. I can. I can absolutely worst ones. Please explain because what elements

am I looking at that are so bad? Well, you're looking at it's the same. It's the same design elements that go into things like Brooktown High when a developer shows up and thinks that they understand what cute is and what the market wants. And the market wants large heads and cute small bodies. That's it.

And they think that like. They don't follow through anymore. Sheepie art and SD things are like it's just proportions. It doesn't matter whether the design has again, like a particular style to it. So we can just take our normal Western looking models and put them and just alter the proportion. Yeah, NBA Jam it.

Big head, small body. It's like a Morgan 3D model that got squashed and stretched horribly. And everyone and everything in the trailer and the faces all just look really like like a like a Western art style, adult faces, adult man faces on these SD bodies. And it does fucking doesn't work. And it's super jarring and weird. And I guess that's what happens when Capcom Vancouver

is taking their stab at it, which they shouldn't have done. Oh, bad. And yeah, that's the problem. So puzzle fighters are free to play mobile games. I mean, whatever. Why not? Triple Triad puzzle. Yeah, whatever you. Whatever you're not a real game. Whatever your company's puzzle game is.

Sure, make that make that mobile money off of your puzzle game. Why not? But yeah, this this this art style stuff is is something else. And then you can get a better look at some of the other characters, including Hagar and Bison and Nash and such, which if you haven't seen them, you can take a look right here. Hagar is in there. So, you know, they all look terrible.

Ryu looks awful. You know what? That does not look like Ryu at all. It's funny, because I think Ryu looks the best of all of them. It doesn't look like Ryu, but he doesn't look like Ryu. He looks like a different person. He looks like Ken, but he looks shitty. Well, so he looks like Ken.

Yeah, well, street fighter five Ken. Yeah. Yeah. Ryu looks more like the guy from like Fire Emblem. Bad dudes than he does Ryu. But yeah, I never understood how something gets this far without somebody going, that looks like shit. Right. Yeah. Just like straight up.

That looks like shit. Capcom's in a weird place now because of this face thing. How come everything looks like shit? Everyone's going to be looking for like a reason to laugh at the faces. Yeah, but they keep giving the people reason. It's because when you had such a legacy of sharp, classic, ageless, 2D art, and then you go to this, you make yourself look like a fucking fool. Every time evil never had like the fuck.

So put that guy's face. Yes, no, Jill. Jill went through a lot of face redesigns in her various games. Yeah, but not her face changed. It wasn't like we all look at each other's face and Marvel. You know what I mean? The point is not like you were like, what the fuck? So put Jill's but the point is that this is not new for these characters.

It's not the first time we're seeing that. X is you can go back to Namco X, Capcom or the Project Cross Zone games and see SD versions of these characters. You can go back to the original Puzzle Fighter games and see these versions of these characters or just jump fighter. They had a basis to look at for a lot of background information for this. Like the Morgan's the worst one, and but X might be given a run for the money and you can go back

and look at what Morgan looks like in Puzzle Fighter and how great that character is. That's just sad. I'm just sad. It's not great. Capcom. Everyone call Capcom to complain. Capcom. Yeah. First, it's spelling, which they're still making spelling. Yeah, all over the place. And now it's like the fuck is up with the like.

Did all your fucking 3D modelers and artists leave again? It's Capcom Vancouver. So it's not like it's Capcom like the main design teams in Japan that works on all these games. But then again, like you said, there's lots of reference things to go back and look on like, let's say, why do we make this an HD pixelized looking thing? Somebody. Why does it have to look like Clash of Clans and all that other?

Somebody from Capcom, Japan, looked at that and went, yeah, that's good. They are closer to Funko Pops than they are to the original design. You're right. So yes, you're sad, right? Sad but true speaking of there is actually finally one good Funko Pop. Reinhardt is good. Did you see All Might? No. All Might's Funko Pop has a unique pose and All Might's eyes are black like that.

Oh, OK. Well, every time someone posts anything from Hero, I just stop looking at it because I don't want to see anything I don't want to see yet. I like I just so I'll get there. I'll get there eventually. But that is large. I'm waiting to start it. Funko Pop always forces them to make it. Yeah, Reinhardt's face is covered.

So it's fine. Um, I bet they're a pest. When they got right, right, modeling. Can we just put the black eyes on top of the thing? Yeah, on top of the helmet. Speaking of weird faces, I'm so upset. Why are you talking to me? Can we talk about the Shovel Knight Amiibo reveal?

Now, what I I saw the pictures of these Amiibo of my bows before. So that is Aaron's fucking real collection. So we're talking about the Shovel Knight announcement that includes three Amiibos for King Knight, Plague Knight and Specter Knight. And I was like, those are cool. And then much later, seeing it in person, you know, who better a day later? I better commercial because he legit has every fucking Amiibo ever. And he has them shelved in this amazing case

that like makes everything we have look like garbage. Like he's so astonishingly expressive. So what you need to do is go watch the trailer that reveals the Amiibos for Shovel Knight. Now, you get to watch Aaron Egoraptor Hansen in his all glory. Admiring a couple or three packs of Amiibos. This is the one I want the most of all, like ever. I'm sorry. Go ahead, because A, they look incredible.

Is that Specter Knight? It looks amazing. He was looking at nothing. He was looking at his own lantern before. So the thing is, when you get to see them up close, actually, there's there's actually fine details missing in some cases. But like they're they're very like like like Specter Knight, for example. It looks too good. Specter Knight looks fantastic. King Knight, you can look at King Knight and see like, OK, like

there's a lot of like yellow and it's an over almost over indulgent of yellow. Well, there's there's places on the chest where you could have a black line or two just to help the definition out. Sure. But that's not what Amiibos do, you know? This is in line with what the original Shovel Knight Amiibo was, where it's like, yeah, you could go for a bit more detail. You could make it a bit more expensive. If we push a little bit more, if you and I just annoy certain people,

how close are we? I don't think so. You don't think so. I don't think. No, Matt, the closest we'll get is like, well, here's you're not. Well, won't get you guys to do a commercial. But what we can do is upload you for leading Amiibo on tour. Shut up. You can't have it. You can't have it. Look, I'll tell you why.

The bath is going to be in takeover, which will be on the switch. That is literally an Amiibo that has two functionalities on two games on the same system. You're not going to get it. He's going to be in Pocket Fighter, which will also be on the switch. He's in three fucking games. Not enough on the switch. I'll tell you why I can't have more games. And I'm telling you why some knee pads and get ready.

I will. I'm telling you why right now. Why? Because if you got a Baz Amiibo, yeah, you would have to get a raise Amiibo and a and a hatman, Mr. Hat Amiibo and every other guest character Amiibo, because that'd be the only way for it to be now because they're they're not in multiple games. It's true. We pushed Baz much harder than the other people. In fact, well, we didn't do anything.

It was but if dive kick was on the switch, then come on, then come on at that point. Listen, I'm really getting. Listen, the yacht club. Listen, yacht club is allowed to do what they are, whatever they want to do with the characters that they have the rights to do whatever they want with. Yeah. And it's their choice to do and push who they want to push

and who they don't want to push and such and so forth. So as much as I would love that, I'm not going to get my. When are we going to get a Dave Lang Amiibo? Willie, I told I told peace. I told Pat this, but I got a PR email about wind jammers. Maybe you got it too. I got it. And it started with in memory of Dave Lang. Wind jammers is now on the PS4.

Here's your code. Yeah, yeah. I love that the release of a game has killed a man. That this Dave Lang shit fest. It's so good. So far to now you have companies, PR departments, like proclaiming your death. Oh, man, it's a shame how Dave Lang. I can't die in 2015.

I can't believe Dave Lang fucking died five years ago. That's the fucking worst ever. Remember the good old days? Oh, wow. We were never any good old days. When you run into Dave Lang, you'd be like, man, you're doing a really good Dave Lang cosplay. Man, I miss that guy. He died.

We need to push it forward to have a lot of indie games start dedicating their game to Dave Lang. Dave Lang better being no more heroes. Travis Trice again. What? Yes. As a boss. Ironically, a zombie boss. Unironically, Dave Lang should be a boss. Press F. Travis kills to pay respects to Dave Lang.

More Dave Lang. No. And also, absolutely not. Johnny gives his phone number out and now he didn't. He died. We have this story coming out that some games are going to require a memory card to experience all content on the switch because the SD cards that come the switch games come on aren't big enough for some games.

So it's actually pretty similar. It's actually the same as we've always seen with games that like have a day one download. Yeah. Halo. It's the exact same thing. Right. But what it is is, yeah, some games. And now the first one will be NBA 2K18. You're going to require as a memory card to play the full game.

And fortunately, no one will ever buy this on their switch. And if you don't have one. Oh, yeah, everything about this game is a shit show. If you don't have a memory card, then what you end up getting is a limited version of the game. It's like the N64 without the expansion pack. Exactly. So certain levels, modes and so on, they're saying. That means that someone announced a 400 gig memory card

that that I think it's out now and it's going to be compatible. Yeah, but those aren't actually financially viable for like mass storage. I wouldn't imagine not to mention that, like, depending on whether it's fucking class 10 or class fucking eight or whatever. And then and whether the XC XC, whether it's XC or not exactly, all that stuff is determines what devices it'll even fucking work on to begin with and not so memory cards. It's the memory card game is no longer universal once upon a time.

You have a slot and it would work. And now we're in a place where different devices have different requirements for what can it cannot work. So if you see a thing that has a really huge storage capacity, doesn't mean it's going to work in your device. But like at the same time, like like I said before, I made a joke. But like, who is going to be like, I need to have my NBA 2K? Yeah, sure. But this system. OK, but guess what?

NBA 2K is eventually there's going to be games that will that that are of significance. Yes, NBA 2K is just the example that the story starts with. But this is the first one that that I should point out that could become 13 gigs. Breath of the Wild is 13 gigs, people. Yeah, what is happening in what it is is that Nintendo knows how to make their games that they don't require a lot of space and they compress the shit out of it. Like Breath of the Wild,

cel shading means that you can get away with a lot and not in some areas, though. Yes, not in that one spot. You'll probably be fine if you buy one of their two terabyte SDXC cards, SDXC cards, or you should just not buy that version of NBA 2K. Yeah, I would not. I'd imagine it's missing modes because they don't want to scare switch players with so many modes. It's very scary, these modes. But yeah, it's really just like it's the same shit we've seen on every console,

really, as time went on, there'd be day one downloads of a certain size. And it's never happened on the Genesis. No, it didn't. Yeah, because you have to play with your three button controller. You're feeling it harder. Six button one. Yeah, you could. You're feeling you have to pay extra. Yes, you're feeling it harder because this is a it's a like the equivalent of a living room console without a hard drive in it.

Yeah, you know, yeah. So. Oh, well, let's take some emails. Oh, before we do, I want to say one thing about the Acusa series. They recently came out and we're talking about Kewami 2 and they said something really great for everybody, which is the reason why Kewami 2 is even happening because of unexpectedly unexpected success of zero and Kewami in Western. Well, Kewami, I think, is a bit of a stretch because it just just came out.

They don't know the order numbers. Yeah, they must have. But yeah, it's like Yakuza is successful enough. But I put all the success on zero. Well, absolutely. And it deserves it. But unexpected success abroad and in the world means that new Yakuza games are just straight up getting made. So like the localization demon has finally been slain.

I really want to I want to play Black Panther. Please, please do a remake of Black Panther on consoles, not on the PSP. Does that explain the existence of Hokuto ga Gotoku? Maybe. Yeah, we think so. Because why else would they end up with that in that way? Dude, we were talking about that last time. Because the series was popular in Japan, but it was never popular worldwide. Right. But now it is like, well, it's at least no.

Well, they wouldn't they wouldn't be like here. Take our thing and do this. Unless it was like, yeah, you can make money in America. Yeah. So that makes sense. And maybe with this license, you actually can make real money in America. You just call this a North Star and they're going to buy it. What's it called, like a fist? Like like a North Star.

Oh, like a North. I know. Yeah. That's what you said. That's what you said. Like a fist star. Like a fisting star. Yeah. Emails. Yeah. Emails. Is there like a Mr. Mr. Hart versus Mr. Shakedown. Hart's Mr. Hart.

No. So they that'd be amazing. So I don't know if you you were paying attention to this. But the the Supreme King of Evil or whatever that character's name is, the character that's supposed to be like a Kiryu God, Ken's like long time adversary over the whole course of the game. His voice Hector has not been revealed. It's going to be Majima's voice Hector. Because Kiryu's is just fucking Kenshiro's.

Yeah, Kenshiro's has Kiryu's voice Hector. And so I don't know. You guys wouldn't be familiar and I barely have to play it. But when they did Kenshin or what was it? Whatever. When they did the the what was it called? Oh, yeah, yeah. So like the Kiryu was not Kiryu. It was what's that fucking famous guy?

Big swordsman man. Guts. No. The really famous. Miyamoto. Miyamoto. He was me. No, wait, what? Me. Musashi. Yeah. Musashi and every all the characters were the historical figures, but they were just being played by their Yakuza counterparts.

OK, OK, OK. So it's going to be this. It's going to be the same thing. Yeah, like that's a star evil guy that just happens to look like Ryuji Goda. Can you go to a post-apocalyptic post-apocalyptic donkey? Yes. Sick. I get it. I so sick. I don't know.

There's stores and bars. But I do know. I saw him mix in a drink. Yeah. So that means it looks identical to the grand club from zero. It's the same model. Like it's the apocalypse, but it takes place in Eden, the town where everything's just fine and there's electricity.

And it's an entertainment district from the old world. And it's just going to be built on Camerocho's ashes. There you go. All right. If you got an email, you can send it over to superbestfriendcastatgmail.com. And super best friend cast at gmail.com. That's super best friend cast at gmail.com. Why are you pounding it?

I don't know. I just feel like doing this. He's nervous. He's nervous. He's pounding it. He's afraid that question will show up. I don't know. Well, if you want to talk more about Yakuza, we can do that. OK, all right.

I'll fill up one. Sure. We got one coming in from Roher and Roher says hello, super best friend. Hello. From Matt and Pat, thoughts on Kazama Kiryu. After listening to episode 211's letter segment and bearing witness to the never before seen results of death cargo footage it probably led to. I was inspired to write a letter myself.

I watched and enjoyed Yakuza 4 and the Yakuza 0 LPs. Notice Matt and Pat's mid annoyance, mild annoyance, excuse me, at how much of a goody two shows. Goody two shows, Kiryu can be. We literally talked about in the Mishinima episode at length that just came out of Yakuza Kowami. He's the hyper idealized Japanese male specimen. And I think he's meant to derail the typical formula of a Yakuza drama.

Yeah. Modern Yakuza stories have characters that make sensible decisions and suffer because of them. Examples include the film series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity. Five movies, Earth of Gangsters, making careful power plays and getting wiped out for their troubles. Kiryu, on the other hand, his style is after the chivalrous Yakuza movies of the 60s, he stubbornly sticks to his own moral code, beats up his own clans

bosses who are usually untouchable in other stories and rarely compromises. He no cells despair and power. Wait, hold on. He no cells despair and powers through swerves to keep on fighting. And in a modern setting that makes him a novelty for the genre of fiction. Do you agree or disagree? Agree to disagree.

About what? If this is read on the podcast, I'd love to hear responses to the letter from anyone who's on. Sorry, the letter so long. I cut it down as best I could. OK, so I agree with absolutely everything that this person said. And I appreciate the historical context of like the different eras of movies. That has never actually been our highly specific annoyance. No, not at all.

I love that Kiryu is like the hyper idealized is like sticks to sticks to his guns and his morals. When it becomes huge plot moments. Yeah. But when it comes to smaller scale things, it's the small stuff. It's the like, Kiryu, what do you think your job is? Your job is to be a criminal. Your job is to shake people down and collect bad loans. And and being a people.

You're a gag member. Do crimes. You're a bad person. And Zero had the potential and Kiwami has the potential to be like, this is why Kiryu joined the Kusa because of this. And the answer is because his dad had a cool car. And it's like and he sees it as hyperglamorous and cool, but like he's a smart character. Really? He's solid.

He's all these things. But he he has a character. His one failing is that he never actually internalized. These are criminals. Everyone around you is a criminal. The idea that they are criminal or do bad things is consistently shocking to him. Yeah, like what? How could you do that?

An example is when we're playing Kiwami. A character says, oh, I sold that ring. Or I refuse to sell you that ring for this price. And then Kiryu goes, what? But you just raised the price. I'm sorry. And then Kiryu goes, oh, damn, and runs out and tries to like make that money. Fucking punch that guy.

A 900 million year old. Take that ring. Tall muscle beast. And he's standing there in front of like a four foot guy that has no martial arts training to steal that for the bigger plot. Things like kill this girl for the good of the no. And that's I won't. And actually, I think they're going a little bit towards that complaint

because I know that's been a complaint for a while. It's like, no, Kiryu, you just hit him like you're not. You've hit a million people for a million different reasons. Like that's Ichiban, the new guy. Yeah, considerably rougher around the edges, a little, little rough and probably not going to be that much of a good addition. But I love that he's a good eat to choose than he stands up for all his. But he has ridiculous levels of idealism.

Yeah, like just absurd. Just like a hundred guys with guns pointed at him. He's saying Kouami goes, like, I don't really feel right about taking money from innocent people. These are fucking incredible. Do another job. What do you think the nine to five years at the office are doing, man? Yeah. Yeah.

So it's things like that that like bother us when it comes to his character development. So maybe that's because we don't know that much about you because there's a there's a red article recently that there's one clan out something, something goomy. I forget what it is that is trying to clean up their image and they are retreating away from the really fucked up rackets and going to what it would be considered the classical

organized crime rackets, the ones that everybody knows, but just and are focusing more on protecting the community and stuff like that. The Japanese police are like certain that it is like hiding some massive fucking deal and that they're just trying to butter people up to cover what probably like their fucking slavery ring or something. All right. Like if you want to, I think we've pipped this every single time. There's an article out there of three Yakuza reviewing. Yes, yes. Three. Yeah.

And they all talk about Kiryu and that he actually reminds them of old guys in their clan to one point of like going, oh, yeah, I knew a guy. He ran an orphanage just like he fucking died. He ran an orphanage and guys like you mean it wasn't a tax shelter. He goes, of course, it was a tax shelter, but he did run the orphanage and take care of the kids. Right. Right. You know, stuff like that. It's it's a super interesting read.

I don't know who did it. Yeah, I forget. Yeah, I know it was a relapse scar I think because I remember I had it open for a while, but it's the best. It's the absolute best. And wasn't it also just like this guy is going to get himself killed every two seconds? Yeah, no, it's like, oh, this guy fights all the time. You know, you know what I do with a guy like this? You just kill him. Too much problems. Right. Right. And what's interesting is that's what zero is about.

Zero is about like, hey, why did you kill this guy? Did you have to kill this guy? I didn't, though. Because you just murdering a random guy over nothing. Bad idea. That's actually a really big problem for us. Yeah, we got another one coming in from Kyle. He says, hey, average, worse, Nemesis, an episode three of Dead Space Two. Pat makes a scathing remark about the death of Leon Kennedy,

about the death sounds of Leon Kennedy. And for whatever reason, his words, shut up, Leon, sparked a memory of a friend of mine refusing to play with any play anything with Chris as the protagonist, in his opinion, sprouting from five, where he's a baffled at a big, muscly, special ops guy like Chris has serious trouble pulling a lever. While lowly, late to work, ex-police officer Leon can pull them like they're nothing in RE4.

As far as he's concerned, Chris is a little bitch. Keep in mind that, OK, you're going on. What's the question? Considering. OK, it's been a little while since I've heard any RE questions, and I feel like the who's better's question has definitely been asked before. But with these two points, which protagonist do you think is better? Leon Kennedy with his death rattles or Chris?

I need 10 minutes to yank this lever redfield. It's it's Leon for sure. I think I like Leon more, but he's more like it's weird. He's like more of an action hero where he's impossibly cool later on, whereas Chris always has this flawed sense about him in the games, at least. I like to Leon and to the best because he's very down on his luck. Like Chris seems more down to earth, even though he's like a superhero in five. But like Leon is the actual superhero in four.

Yeah, where in two, one and two, Chris is like a special ops man. It's like Rambo going to the to the zombie house. Yeah. And in two, it's like he's a rookie cop. And my favorite thing about his characterization is that if you go through A and B, he calls people on the radio all the time and says, don't go there or do meet me there. And every single time, whoever he's talking to just blows him the fuck off and ignores him.

And at the end of the game, he just like looks at the radio is like, why doesn't anyone ever listen to me? I great, just great. I like I like the style that Leon has more than Chris. Yes, in every version. Yeah. Kicks are cooler than punches. Come on, guys. Yeah. So yeah, they require more dexterity.

There's a little spin aspect to it. Yeah. But like, I still like them both. Like if you'd asked me in a certain juncture, I would have been like, oh, of course, Leon, but now I'm kind of actually like in between the two. I am like actually pissed off that that new Able CG movie is like Leon and Chris together at last. It's like that should be a game. Oh, that should have been because it's never it's never been one.

Should have been Jill and Claire. You should watch that because they actually work like amazing as a tag team. Of course. Yeah. That's though, that's I'm sure that's what the build up is to. But yeah, more or less. It's just like like it's very frustrating that like Chris and Leon have never been in a room together in a game. I think in the books, they're together once or twice.

It couldn't be less can and couldn't be one from coming in from Chris. Yeah, as good as Leon, Chris. Seer, dooper, fest, Brent cast. That's tough. I don't know about that one. In your opinion, do you think even the most accurate controller can be better than the shittiest mouse on a PC first person shooter? Absolutely.

It depends how shitty the mouse is. Yeah, no, it doesn't fucking work. I played with shitty mouth. I played with shitty wireless mice. And OK, so here's why that is absolutely the case, because a shitty mouse with a trackball in it. For example, will sometimes just not move when your hand moves. Yeah.

And a controller, depending on whether the game has things like a Titanfall 2's advanced or like radical targeting and the whole you can choose to go full speed the whole time consistently on your stick movement, or you can go start slow, move fast or start fast, move slow types of acceleration. And so on. All those things make a controller way better in that circumstance than a shitty trackball mouse like a mouse that doesn't work.

Yeah, anything's better than that. Or it works shit. He's like, I played something on the flop. I was recently where I was like, I will start with a controller. And I was like, holy shit, no way. Then I switched to a mouse like the de facto thing for like a lot of genres, not all of them, but a lot of them. So but if the mouse doesn't work like fuck no.

And I should point out because some people might say, well, what about a shitty mouse that does work? It's like, no, that's not how mouse are shitty. Yeah. A mouse either works or it doesn't. If it's if you move it and it's like off, like it's inaccurate, like that's a broken mouse. There's no in between.

Steve says, super best friends a few years ago, I was watching Gurren for the first time. Netflix only had the English double available. Wanted to get into the show, but I couldn't last more than five minutes because they kept saying Simone as petty as this Seamon. Yeah, it's the actual problem. That's how this pronunciation got right under my skin and I couldn't stand it.

Have you guys run into this sort of thing? Do you think you can pin down an explanation for why it's so mad? Let me back up because in the fucking Japanese version, they say she maul. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And we say we say Simon. Yeah, we say Simon and and people go, those fucking losers say the wrong thing.

It's supposed to be Seamon, right? So the dub of Gurren is like rife with that shit where after the dub came out, all these things that people had like written down in various subtitles as like, say, Ritner Village. Yeah, was no, it's not Ritner Village. It's Leetona Village. Yeah, and they're all nonsense, garbage words because they sounded cool and Japanese.

The reason why it's frustrating in all these cases and you see it all over video games and all over anime is because we know what the Japanese like creators and writers were trying to do. And you can see where the mistake was. And you then have to kind of roll with it or not. And then the creators vision is flawless and everyone in the production just decided to go along with the mistake.

So yeah, so if the creators vision is flawless, then Griffysu is Griffysu. There's nothing we can do about it. This is so like sorry. He didn't know how to say Griffith. So he just said the word, the thing that sounded weird. And then when when you try to correct it, it's like, no, no, no. Stop saying yo 10s.

It's it's it's it's it's the author of Attack on Titan and Mura from Berserk. It was it's so satisfying when they come out and no, they're English words. I just wrote them like that with the shit because that's how you run. Like, no, his name is guts in Griff. You idiots. So like, yes.

Oh, fuck you, band of the hawk. So just any time someone's like it's she. It's like fucking shut up. He's clearly trying to say Simon. The name is clearly supposed to guess. Like Kamina is a Japanese name. You can say what you want about that, whether it's Kamina or Kamina or they always coming out like even in the WC common.

That's fine. But I'm just saying like you can get at that one. You can get on, but fuck up Simon. You can you can you can argue. That's something you can argue about how Japanese you sound. Saying the word Yakuza, Yakuza, Yakuza, however you guys do it. I go with Yakuza's now. Sure. But it's fucking Simon, man.

And it's clear they wanted it to be Simon in the dub. If they said Simon, people would also complain. Sure. Yeah, but those and those people are wrong. They're wrong. They're super bad. That being said, the girl in dub aside from like, because there's no way he could have ever possibly lived up to it. But Kyle Herbert Gohan in the DBZ dub, it just can't do it.

Can't do Kamina because no man could really do it. You know what? In the dub, he shouldn't have been dubbed. He should have just been the Japanese and everyone just talks English to him because everyone else in that dub is fine. Steve Blum is amazing in that. Yuri Lothal is amazing as Simon. It's a serious problem when you write a character for like a highly ethnic style of speech. Yeah.

Like Kamina was built to deliver the Japanese version of the hot blooded speech. Yep. Specifically, the way all the scenes are written, the way all the all the writing is geared. It's like, this is how a Japanese hero gets excited. And yeah, it's about you can hear you can. Yeah, it's called Gar. Very so specific. You can hear the American voice actor like literally trying his best.

But the way that the show is framed, the way it's animated, like a voice can't keep up with that because it was never intended to sync with an American voice and that level of energy and whatever. I think of a JFK speech translated into Japanese and how fucking goofy that would. Right? Oh, ask how you can do the cod. Yeah, like it doesn't work.

Going to space. It's built around that like in that like that slight boss accent that like idiosyncrasies of that native language is never get translated. Yeah, JFK going what a what a what. Translate anything. Just give me the subtitles. Oh, man, try gun was always a dub that worked fine because it was supposed

to be a Western. God Bosch came down and God Bosch and that's new. Have you been working on that? God Bosch. He's the best, though. Of Fuli Kuli's dub is better than the sub for this reason because it's built for American characters and it makes more sense. And the way that they talk is like American kids more than Japanese

golden boys dub is better than and I guess it's also why is it like Sakamoto sounds so weird to us, too. Well, that's because that's wrong because it's like, you know, that's not how they say it in Japanese. So it sounds weird when you do that. Why didn't you just change all their names to mark? Don't do that. Yeah.

I think I think, uh, yeah, like, like, I haven't seen all of it dubbed. But what I have seen of Champloo dubbed is fine. But I really think Steve Bloom doesn't get as gutter as the original Mugen voice actor. Mugen's voice actor gets really fucking trashy. And you're telling the voice of Wolverine that he's not. I know, I know, I know, it sucks. But you know, you're not, you're not wrong.

He's a little too clean with it, you know. Anyway, I can't taste the grime off the voice. He's more grime. Yeah, he needs to be sliming. All right, we got one coming in from Mother Inko in my hometown within Transylvania. Dad would tell me that the eclipse happening was the sun turning her back on humanity.

I've never heard a very Transylvania way of looking at it because their horrible nature and acts, hence becoming black. And Mother would add that never look to never look at it because if anyone were to look at the sun during this, it was it was to be considered disrespectful that the it would be considered so disrespectful that the moon, her night, would fire a burning arrow into the eyes and blind anyone who dared to peek. Dude, that's cool.

Yeah, and the question. No question. That's just cool. LDR, old myth about the sun nipping the fuck out and looking, noping the fuck out and looking away from humanity's deeds. And the moon shoots anyone in the eyes who tries to peek it. It makes sense that in Transylvania, the idea of the sun just been like, no, man, no, no. I'm done with this shit.

You guys, I've been looking at this planet for way too long. I am. I am so done with this. Yeah, I am so done. No, no, no. That's neat. All right, let's find a good one. Dracula's like, fuck you, son. Fuck you.

You come down. No one gives two shits about the moon. Careful, you don't work yourself into a shoot, son. Dracula. OK, I went with Dracula. Let's take one from Eric F. And he says, we don't boys cast. Do you guys like the depraction?

The podcast is gone. I began listening to some of the first casts and I really enjoyed the raw, more casual feel of them opposed to when it's slightly structured like they are now. I certainly don't think the podcast has become worse. I'm just curious to know what you guys think. I'm I'm a fan of the let me know. Like I was kind of the less structured,

not that I have any like big problem with it. I'm a fan of like, I think the best moments is like when we start and we're just going off whatever we were feeling at that moment. And we just sometimes doesn't happen all that. I'd say like maybe once a month, maybe it'll be like transition to like 20 minutes of. Yes, yes, the structure needs to be there so that we have something to go on.

But by all means, if you have a stupid tangent, we talked about the fucking King of the Road match for like 10 minutes. All means go on your stupid tangent. Yeah, I guess. I mean, do you have any thoughts on it? Because I have some. That's my thoughts. Yeah. No, I feel that like in the beginning episodes,

what you're hearing is us just working out how a podcast would go and not kind of knowing what we're doing also. And anything that you do two hundred of is going to like, you know, you're going to get the feel of it. You're going to fall into a sort of like pattern, a right, a rhythm, I'd say. And positive version of that word. Exactly. You have the rhythm of setting the pattern. Exactly. And I'm going to say that we also like kind of rely on it because, you know,

you do you have a feel for how these things go and you like even when and when they're happening at their best, you're like, OK, yeah. But I mean, they're Mondays. I like how that felt. Any particular one of us comes in and we don't have a burning, passionate need to talk like there's no tangent sitting at the tip of our tongue. Exactly. That we're waiting to jump on. Right. And that's where the format is going to help out.

And whereas, like, occasionally, like, I think the time that I wasn't here, apparently you guys went nuts and started like drawing a bunch of comic book characters or something. We'll start throwing a bunch of comic book characters on the screen. But, you know, at the end of the day, like it's sort of just exactly the structures are to kind of like help along when we don't have random things to go to go on about, because any time we do, those take over anyway. Yeah. You know.

And I guess what you if you if you want to listen for both things, you can listen for cat. Get your counters out and right. And again, count how many times a random tangent will go on whenever and then count how many times a topic will just grind to a halt with nothing left to go done after one cent. And then we go, all right. There's I'd say about once a podcast, there's a story that you mentioned the story.

We go, yep. And we got and now back to the structure because it's like because you picked it because it's like, well, this game got announced, maybe Matt or Pat or we'll want to talk about it and then I'll want to talk about what they had to talk about. And then you you say, hey, that got announced and me and Mac. Oh, yeah. And you know, yeah. And to, you know, I guess, peek behind the curtain a little bit, a little bit about how the naked sausage is made.

You know, when sort of coming up with like the format for this, I remember looking at different podcasts and thinking about how they approached it. And like you'll watch, like, for example, comedian podcasts will have zero structure. It's it's rushed to the guest. It's just exactly get the guest in. And then we're just going to riff because our job is to be professionally funny. We can we can hold down a couple hours like this. No problem. Oh, yeah. And those and they managed to do so 90 percent of the time.

But the 10 percent of the time when they run out of shit to talk about, it gets really rough. It's real bad. It gets really rough, rough in a good way, rough in a bad way where it might be rough in a good way because he loves seeing people fail. Sure. Sure. But what you'll see sometimes is basically like, OK, click on a Joe Rogan episode, right? And you'll watch it and you'll see lots of compelling guests and amazing conversations and you'll see a count that says like three hours,

twenty minutes, right? But then sometimes you'll see a guest and it'll say an hour and twenty minutes. And it'll be like, oh, they ran out of shit to talk about. So they called it. How are the kids? They fucking called it, you know, and there was a recent one like that where I was like, that went on for a bit. And that was pretty fun.

But then after an hour and some odd minutes, you know, there is only so much you can get out of Pauli's or it's a good date versus a bad date. Right. So if your day lasts about an hour, your date has a bunch of activities planned, then you can get through the whole day. Right. No matter what, you can still go to the next thing. There you go. No matter how. And maybe that'll be maybe that'll turn it around. The grumps just started a podcast called the G Club where it's one subject for one hour.

OK, so it's like a low commitment. It's arms, then it's a Spider-Man homecoming. Then it's which I wish I was on the Shin Godzilla podcast. And I was like, that's a way to do it, too. That's an interesting way to do it. Yeah, low commitment. Just find a subject you both, you all, everyone has. But I like that. But I was recently on coffee with Clems on the weekend, and that's going to be

going up for that. And the way Clems does his podcast is literally just bullshit for an hour and then just read into questions. There's absolutely no format of any kind whatsoever. So what I was getting at is I basically kind of formed some of this around the around the knowledge that we would completely fail to be interesting. Oh, yeah, that's the best way to go about it. At least a couple of weeks. No question. And that this would be a fallback for us to rely on.

Because, hey, the whole thing. How long did we talk about get out with with Satch talked about that for like the whole episode, almost two hours. It was the whole episode. Yeah, it was the get out cast. Well, that's because Satch is like an unparalleled, interesting conversationalist. There's that, too. No, but I love you, Satch. When you think about what you just said with the analogy of the date,

it's perfect because like, yeah, if you go to the bathroom earlier on and then, I don't know, you splatter shit on your pants and you come back and you sit down and she sees it and you're like, oh, I pissed on myself. At least if you can. Right. And then the bread hasn't even come yet. Right. You know, if you don't have a schedule, if you don't have a schedule, you're in there, right? You just got to sit and take that shit.

But at the very least, if you know that, hey, we got a movie to get to. The darkness will hide this. You get to go to that movie. And then after the movie, there might be a little concert or something. Maybe she forgot that you pissed on your pants. And you know what I mean? And then you got another thing and you got to, hey, we got to go. Hey, we got to go.

Is that shouldn't? Hey, no, we got to go. We're going to miss the movie. We're going to miss it. We're going to miss the bus. Let's go. Did I tell you that night? Or did I tell you later when we went to go see Gravity where I was like, I sat in shitloads of ice cream. Did I tell you that night?

I don't remember which night. I told it later. It definitely wasn't on the spot. OK, it was as a big, it definitely wasn't the moment. It happened that and talk about the ice cream. No, no, it didn't happen. Well, anyway, then that is a good question. There you go. Don't get really many podcast questions.

Yeah, that was all right. How did how did? Well, anyway, you picked out some questions last week. I did. Yeah. You picked a good one from from NecroStorm. OK, nice. We got that email from the NecroStorm PR manager. Because I mean, we are running.

That's where the the the title of that podcast episode came from. We'll add actual gameplay. OK, because because the talk is ticking, you know, the talk is ticking. Because but there was one that was where was he? What did you say? You little scamp. With all the money you remember for. Yeah, it was a dude.

Those are the guys like why? Why won't we lower standards for emails on the podcast? And like, it's funny because it was sandwiched in between two emails that we had already been asked about. Oh, I thought they're really bad about, you know, what if platinum made X and what your favorite Y was? And so I kind of just was like, that's interesting. My favorite Y is the Y wing from Star Wars.

My favorite Y is the Y M.C.A. That's good. What about you, Matt? My favorite Y is. Is it the Ryan Reynolds? No, I lied. My favorite Y is why the last man. Oh, that's good. My favorite Y is actually the the Ryan Reynolds gift where he goes.

But why? Yeah, it's going. But what do we have an actual question? What happens? Matt's favorite Y is. Toshte. Right when someone yells that in Bible Black. Why? Why would you do this? No one says that. Everyone knows exactly why this is happening.

All right, that's that's I'm not even making a joke. Matt's favorite Y is Yabo. No one's. Yeah, it's a pretty good one. No one's confused as to the goings on. Gotcha. Matt's favorite Y is Y cup. That's just painful. J cup is completely fine. Go back.

That is serviceable. Kira chronicles you. That's it. That's a Y cup. No, I like I dare I'd say a Y cup is like that's like that. Those dark corners, those image board. No, a Y cup is like why God, why? Yeah, yeah. That's where you can't even see the body anymore.

Oh, man, somebody's getting the biggest direction. I hate that Valkyrie Chronicles art. I actually don't get the air pump. No, not a fan. Fucking what? Oh, no. No, it just clicked in my head. Like no one's going to try as he can. Foot fetishists.

Yes, bigger inflate the feet. Big feet for big. Well, there's inflate. The corn. Hell, yeah. There's hell, yeah. Inflating the knees is a thing. Why can't it wait? Really? Yeah. The knees.

Well, there's the donut head thing, too. You're inflating your foot. No, I don't know that one. That one was a real thing. That wasn't a fake fan fiction sex thing. That was a thing that people did because they thought it was cool. It wasn't super wasn't foot inflation. Oh, they're on that for sure.

For sure. I have faith that the internet is already on. Oh, even if it isn't, we just created it. We just like, you know, it's that horrible fear that I have a lot is that I'll say something horrible and fucked up and someone within the sound of my voice will go. Oh, I think that just did. They'll get a little tingle.

They'll just be a little new. I don't want to awake. Something in their chest will unlock. Yeah, I don't want to accidentally awaken any horrible desires. No, no, that someone has a bunch of psych locks and you just unlocked one of them. How is your past and a bunch of psych locks to show up? Did we ever find out what was behind that one guy's

psych locks at the end of Ace Attorney five? Well, which guy love the lawyer? We had like a hundred psych locks. You talked to him once and like 10 psych locks appear on him. And by the end of that game, you're just like, oh. Well, he's a lawyer, right? Yeah, there's tons of shit. Imagine like you click on a JPEG that you shouldn't.

And then your eyes open up and then I am thou. Thou art I. Well, there's a in one of the first two seasons of community. There's, you know, the weird ass principle. He's watching that those videos of that muscle man spray paints himself like a zebra with the prosthetic on his face. OK. And he's watching it. He's like, I hope this doesn't awaken anything inside.

Yeah. And then it just cuts to his face of him just watching it more and like the closest anything got awakening to me was when we were playing Warriors All Stars and a show that fucking beefy furry guy. And I'm like, this man animal is impossibly attractive. Manimal is doing things that I don't want him to be doing. Why has he got to be there in me? Strange. We got to show you those very guys.

Yeah, you are free. Boys. It's really ridiculous. Do I have to see them? Maybe I don't. I want to know what can be awakened inside you. Anyway, what is the end of the podcast? Yeah, what do we have left? We have to talk about what we're doing.

What are we doing? I'm going to LA. Guess what? I'm going to stay in Burbank, California, which currently is an inferno of wildfires raging right now. Just use one of Jay Leno's bikes. You'll be OK. I know. When I think of Burbank, I think of Jay Leno, because every time I'd

watch the tonight show, I'd be like, fly from Burbank, California. Exactly. But I'm going to California starting this Thursday, having a while. I'm just kind of a fly on the wall of a meeting with Nintendo America due to take over stuff. I'm just there because I was like, oh, that's fun to do. Oh, it's for business. Well, I it doesn't matter if I was there or not. I'm just going because it's like, hey, you want to come?

Sure. OK, cool. But you know, I'm I hang out with Max, my hang out with some people. So I'm I'm going for that. So I'm looking I'm looking forward to that because it's like it's like fucking for apparently it's the hottest it's ever been there right now. I after after Las Vegas, I'm ready. I'm I'm ready for another round of like unbearable heat. I think I can do it.

So yeah, especially since it's starting to get cold out here. Yeah, exactly. Matt. Yes. Do you want to talk about Game of Thrones? Do you want to do that today? You want to do that because I'm I'm not going to be here next week. So it'll have to be the one. Well, we look. Do. Oh, wow.

That's an attractive for a man. Wow. And they're playing it up, too. You're getting shots of the tail and his abs and everything. Jesus, calm down, guys. No, never. They're all like that. It's weird sweating over here because I haven't really super collected my thoughts on that. I kind of want to go through like my episodes.

Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. If you haven't yet, if you haven't yet, but you watched it all. Yeah, yeah, it's totally I fucking I tethered that shit through my phone. Oh, where did you do it? Yeah, we're in a hotel right now. Yeah, I was in a port. I was in a hotel.

No, no, no, I was using my my fucking 3G. OK, and I just I'm like I topped up my data. OK, and I and I downloaded the fucking thing through that. Yeah, through my phone. Yeah, so maybe the next weekend after that, doing everyone's it's subtle than everyone. All right, so Thrones cast as soon as Matt's back. OK, hey, Matt, you're not Matt.

You're woolly. Hey, what's his name? I get confused sometimes now that you're back. I'm going to assume you're going to put up an answer damn video on woolly versus. I mean, barely, barely, barely. You saying you have a novel concept. There's an idea floating around.

I'll see if it works out. But I didn't treat it like Japan because Japan is like an organized fucking be there for two weeks. Like, but it was two weeks of me knowing exactly what to do. What you want to do with what because I've been planning that trip for my whole life. Yeah, this was a fucking dick out wandering around. Who knows? Your dick was out.

No, no, just saying. That's not good because you come out of the red light district. No, no, the kindergartens right there. This was just no plans. And so with no plans, I really didn't have plans to, you know, to to to to to to to shoot. Hey, I went to one place called the Electric Lady Land. It is that sounds cool.

It is a museum of fluorescent lights. And it was a really cool like you got to see like all kinds of really cool fluorescent light art pieces and stuff. But the best part was the Canadian passport is one of the greatest works of fluorescent art ever made. And I can't show it to you because like, well, yeah, I don't show people to do that. But no, but just like for security purposes under under a black light.

Oh, it actually goes nuts. It goes crazy. OK. There's full hidden multicolor, bright, vibrant art on every single page, like paintings on every single page. They're completely different from each other for security purposes. And it's all fancy security and it's super fancy. And you'll never see it unless you have one and you go do that. Or your friend shows you some pictures willing to show you.

Yeah, it's incredible. I just came to mind. But anyway, so yeah, the video might be all right. You're not cool. I'm going to stream over angry's pad on the weekend. Friday in the weekend. And I don't know what yet. Probably some bullshit.

If you're in the greater Los Angeles area, it might try to do a fan meetup at round one. I want to want to play more cruise and blast. So who wants to come beat me at cruise and bled? No one can beat me at cruise and blast. That's beautiful. That's real good. That's not on camera, huh?

Well, you wouldn't be able to make out shit from that. No, that's an explosion of color. Isn't it crazy? That's like what our money is doing times a hundred. And it just keeps going. It's fucking crazy. It's like, let me let me let me back it up so you can see it. It's really cool, but I can't show anybody this stuff.

Oh, wow. That's every page is fucking amazing. That's so cool how no one can see it. No one is allowed to see it. No one is allowed to see that beautiful thing. What's coming up on our on our on our on our primary channel? Now that Willie's back, a lot of stuff is coming back. Things will continue as they were before he left.

More dead space. More dead space. Police knots getting up. Hopefully, yeah, no, we're going to figure out those control issues. Billy had a solution for us, by the way. Oh, Billy's got a whole thing set up. And I haven't implemented yet. But that and mission of my episode for this week, you know,

we talked about it earlier, but we've got to record that. Sure is what it is. It is what it is. See, because that's a that's too obscure. No one's going to get that job. Well, you know what lightning says? Yeah, destiny is destiny. Yeah, they do say that.

Yeah, so there you go. Hopefully, there's enough in that game to make a video of it this time. I hope there is. Do you think there's going to be? I don't know. There wasn't last time, maybe, maybe, maybe. OK, well, anything come any releases? Actually, it looked at September.

September is a shit show. Yeah, that's not great. There's like rabbits and XCOM came out and that's cool. Five thousand in August. Yeah, it was in August. The Guild Wars 2 expansion is coming out. But I'm not going to pick it up. I already awesome.

I already play an MMO, man. I'm not going to play two MMOs tonight. I'm at the last episode of Bible Black goes up. Matt Mussel's Flop House, lots of lethal doses of marijuana were inhaled. Lots of ejaculation was done. Wow. End of an era. What about the video? Yeah, no, about the video, though.

There'll be a special special ending segment that both little VMAs contributed to. So you'll see that. All right, all right. Yeah, I'm I'm going to go fucking catch up and play some absolver. Oh, yeah, you were gone the entire time that came out. I'm going to go catch up and watch some death note. And I'm going to catch up and tell me tell me about death note when you watch.

Watch Jeff's video. Watch Mother Basin's video because he's like, hey, you know what? Everyone calm down. It's a pretty. And then everyone's like, Jeff, no. I don't want to know. I love I don't want to know what to do or not to do, whether I should calm down or not calm down before I even want to know.

Well, you don't even care about that. You're a pretty relaxed guy. I don't think it's considered most of the time. You're not the kind of person I would have to tell unprompted to calm down. You should probably pick up government versus as well. So that's a thing too. There you go. Um, OK, yes, September doesn't have a lot going on.

Yes, go back to school, losers, because it's readying for the storm that is October. So, OK, I mean, you, we seem to like to do this. We're going to look it up at some point and be like, what's the death day in October or November? It's the day that nine or 10 games come out on. Ah, yes, probably going to be the second week of October. Maybe I think it's the second week.

Yeah, because the second week is October 13th Friday, which is where evil within, but before that and after that comes like a sad, like it's just fuck it. Oh, by the way, I should mention that I'm planning to go to Japan next month in the middle of the storm. So we should again. Yeah. OK, that's why you were like, we have to do a bunch. Yeah. OK, you never said that before that. Well, I hadn't said I hadn't locked it down.

What's going on this time? I'm going with my friend, Fuggins. He's never been and he really wants to go. He's wanted to go his whole life. How long? Probably two weeks. Shouldn't be too tough, because we're doing all the shit storms ahead of time. Anyway, yeah, but when do you actually leave?

What day? I haven't nailed the day down. OK, because we have to. We have to do at least one game a little bit longer than normal. Oh, of course. That's it. That's it. That's the only that's required of you. Absolutely. You picked the right system to do it at, though. Yes, I did. I literally did.

OK, OK, because last last year was rough. Yeah, I was. All right, whatever. OK, big travels, big travels for big boys. All right. I'd say we've done it. Sounds like a podcast to me. I know about you. Yeah. It sounds like a shit. All right.

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